The concept of systematicity is central to Immanuel Kant's conception
of scientific knowledge and to his practical philosophy. But Kant also
held that we must be able to unite the separate systems of nature and
freedom into a single system: on the one hand, morality itself
requires that we be able to see its commands and goals as realizable
within nature, while on the other hand our experience of nature itself
leads us to see it as a system with the goal of human moral
development. The essays in this volume, including two published here
for the first time, explore various aspects of Kant's conception of
the system of nature, the system of freedom, and the system of nature
and freedom. The essays in the first part explore the systematicity of
concepts and laws as the ultimate goal of natural science, consider
the implications of Kant's account of our experience of organisms for
the goal of the unity of science, and examine Kant's attempts to prove
that the existence of an ether is a necessary condition for a physical
system of nature. The essays in the second part explore Kant's view
that morality requires a systematic union of persons as ends in
themselves and of the ends that persons set for themselves, and
examine the system of duties and obligations necessary to realize such
a systematic union of persons and their ends. These essays thus
examine both the general foundations of Kant's moral philosophy and
his final account of the duties of right or justice and of ethics or
virtue in his late work, the Metaphysics of Morals. The essays in the
third part examine Kant's attempt, in the last of his three great
critiques, the Critique of the Power of Judgment., to unify the
systems of nature and freedom through a radical transformation of
traditional teleology as a theory of the creation of organic nature
into an account of our experience of organic nature and of nature as a
whole.
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9780191569265
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2020
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Clarendon Press
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Engelsk
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Digital bok
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