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Record Nr.

UNINA9910784579903321

Autore

Freydberg Bernard <1947->

Titolo

Imagination in Kant's Critique of Practical Reason [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Bloomington, IN, : Indiana University Press, 2005

ISBN

1-282-07259-5

0-253-11158-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (201 p.)

Collana

Studies in Continental thought Imagination in Kant's Critique of practical reason

Disciplina

142.3

Soggetti

Ethics

Kant, Immanuel

Practical reason

Imagination

Philosophy

Philosophy & Religion

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; c o n t e n t s; acknowledgments; note on the text and on page references; prologue; introduction; One Principles of Pure Practical ReasonImagination and Moral "Derivation"; Two The Concept of an Object of Pure Practical ReasonImagination, Good and Evil, and the Typic; Three The Incentives (Triebfeder) of Pure Practical Reason Incentive-Creating Imagination and Moral Feeling; Four Dialectic of Pure Practical Reason in General and Imagination; Five Imagination and the Postulates of Immortality and God; Six Imagination and the Moral Extension of Reason

Seven Methodology of Pure Practical ReasonImages and Ecstasyconclusion(s); epilogue; notes; bibliography; index of subjects; index of persons

Sommario/riassunto

With particular focus on imagination, Bernard Freydberg presents a close                reading of Kant's second critique, The Critique of Practical Reason. In an                interpretation that is daring as well as rigorous, Freydberg reveals imagination as                both its central force and the bridge that links Kant's three critiques. Freydberg's                



reading offers a powerful challenge to the widespread view that Kant's ethics calls                for rigid, self-denying obedience. Here, to the contrary, the search for                self-fulfillment becomes an enorm