Knowledge, Morals and Practice in Kant’s Anthropology

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This volume sheds new light on Immanuel Kant’s conception of anthropology. Neither a careful and widespread search of the sources nor a merely theoretical speculation about Kant’s critical path can fully reveal the necessarily wider horizon of his anthropology. This only comes to light by overcoming all traditional schemes within Kantian studies, and consequently reconsidering the traditional divisions within Kant’s thought. The goal of this book is to highlight an alternative, yet complementary path followed by Kantian anthropology with regard to transcendental philosophy. The present volume intends to develop this path in order to demonstrate how irreducible it is in what concerns some crucial claims of Kant’s philosophy, such as the critical defense of the unity of reason, the search for a new method in metaphysics and the moral outcome of Kant’s thought.

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Somatology: Notes on a Residual Science in Kant and the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries

In a very few places in his writing, Kant mentions “somatology.” As a lexical creation of Protestant Scholasticism, “somatology” is meant to be a science dealing with bodies. But this definition entails an ambiguity: A body can be every physical and material object, and in this sense somatology stay... see more

“Ein Spiel der Sinnlichkeit, durch den Verstand geordnet:” Kant’s Concept of Poetry and the Anthropological Revolution of Human Imagination

The present essay proposes a new reading of Kant’s concept of poetry in his Lecture on Anthropology and within his anthropological thought in general. Rather than seeing poetry as merely an anthropological category or even as a disposition of the human spirit falling within the scope of anthropology... see more

The Moral Dimensions of Kant’s Anthropology

Although Kant famously calls his anthropology “pragmatic,” one ongoing debate is whether or not there also exists a distinctively moral anthropology within his pragmatic anthropology. In my contribution, I will begin by surveying the evidence and arguments on both sides of this important controversy... see more

Controlling Mental Disorder: Kant’s Account of Mental Illness in the Anthropology Writings

The aim of this chapter is to cast light on the account of mental illness that Kant offers in Anthropology from a Pragmatic Point of View and in the Lectures on Anthropology. First, I argue that Kant’s analysis of mental disorders is part of a more general task—viz., strengthening human theoretical ... see more

Kant on the Vocation and Formation of the Human Being

One central debate in the German Enlightenment concerned the “Bestimmung” or vocation of humankind, involving authors such as Spalding, Abbt, Mendelssohn, and Schiller, continued by authors such as Fichte and Reinhold. While originally developed as a theological concept, the idea of a vocation was e... see more

The Rules for Knowing the Human Being: Baumgarten’s Presence in Kant’s Anthropology

The goal of the present essay is to underscore that Kant’s anthropological reflection does not acquire its most accomplished value when it is forcefully placed within the architectural project of the critique, but rather when we question the way in which it can accompany the critical reflection. Thi... see more

Anthropology from a Logical Point of View: The Role of Inner Sense from Jungius to Kant

The concept of inner sense plays a prominent role in Kant’s attempts to define the character and scope of anthropology. Moreover, Kant denounces the terminological confusion between inner sense and apperception as a source of paralogisms. Who were his targets? In recent years, scholars have pointed ... see more

Anthropology—A Legacy from Wolff to Kant?

The aim of this essay is not to disagree with critics who assert that there is a strong link between Wolff’s empirical psychology and Kant’s anthropology. The goal of the present work is instead to defend the claim that there is a link between Kant’s anthropology and Wolff’s rational psychology as w... see more

Elucidations of the Sources of Kant’s Anthropology

The narrow question of the genesis of Kant’s anthropology lecture has been captivating German scholarship on his anthropology for more than a century. Sides have been taken and disputes have arisen, but a final determination has yet to be reached. Partly this is so, because Kant did not tell us why ... see more

Introduction

In the Introduction, the editors begin by sketching an overview of recent scholarship on Kant’s anthropology in order to provide a framework for the contributors’ essays. Broadly speaking, this scholarship falls into two categories: historical work on the origins of Kant’s anthropology and conceptua... see more

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