Kant and the human sciences : biology, anthropology and history / Alix Cohen
- 作者： Cohen, Alix 1976-
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- 出版： Basingstoke [England] ;New York : Palgrave Macmillan 2009
- 主題： Kant, Immanuel 1724-1804. , Kant, Immanuel , Biology. , Anthropology. , Humanwissenschaften , Philosophische Anthropologie , Geschichtsphilosophie
- ISBN： 9780230280779 、 0230280773
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- 書目註：Kant famously identified 'What is man?' as the fundamental question that encompasses the whole of philosophy. Yet surprisingly, there has been no concerted effort amongst Kant scholars to examine Kant's actual philosophy of man. This book, which is inspired by, and part of, the recent movement that focuses on the empirical dimension of Kant's works, is the first sustained attempt to extractfrom his writings on biology,anthropology and history an account of the human sciences, their underlying unity, their presuppositions as well as their methodology. In exploring his philosophical and epistemological foundation of the human sciences, it reveals an unexpected picture of Kant, a pictureof a thinker who is profoundly attentive to the diversity, detail and complexity of the human world Includes bibliographical references and index "Focusing on a neglected area of Kant's thought that is now receiving much more attention from Kant scholars, the author presents a unique exploration of one of the world's most widely read philosophers"--Provided by publisher
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Abbreviations -- Acknowledgment -- List of Tables -- Preface -- Freedom and The Human Sciences -- The Model of Biological Science -- What Is The Human Being? -- Pragmatic Anthropology -- Philosophical History -- Epilogue: A Pragmatic Counterpart to the Transcendental Project? -- Bibliography -- Index -- -- -- Freedom and the human sciences -- The freedom at stake in the human sciences -- The standpoint of the human sciences -- The model of biological science -- The part-whole relationship in organisms -- Teleology and the origin of life : epigenesis vs. preformation -- Teleology and the human races : monogenesis vs. polygenesis -- Freedom, intentionality and the antinomy of reflective judgement -- What is the human being? --Anthropology vs. alienology -- The three levels of human praxis and their aliens -- Sincere aliens vs. deceitful humans -- Sincere aliens vs.opaque humans -- The difficulties faced by the human sciences -- Methodological considerations -- Experimental considerations -- Metaphysicalconsiderations -- Pragmatic anthropology -- The pragmatic domain as the field of human action -- The object of pragmatic anthropology -- The method of pragmatic anthropology -- The aim of pragmatic anthropology -- A twofold method : natural vs. pragmatic anthropology -- The interplay between manifest and latent functions : intentionalism vs. functionalism -- Anthropological characterisation : natural human types and Nature's purposes -- The ethical contributions of anthropology -- Anthropology as a support to the practicability of moral willing -- Anthropology as a help to moral efficacy -- Anthropology as a map-making venture -- Philosophical history -- The antinomy of history :teleology vs. mechanism in historical explanations -- The part-whole relationship in the human species -- Empirical history : a mechanical account of human intentions -- Philosophical history : a teleological account of nature's intentions -- From the civilisation of society to the moralisation of the human being -- The teleological story of civilisation : a natural history of the human species --The teleological story of moralisation : a moral history of the human species -- Pragmatic history:the moral politician vs. the political moralist -- Epilogue: A pragmatic counterpart to the transcendenta