Robert B Louden
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 1090898 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Robert B Louden |
| NOMBRES | Robert B |
| APELLIDO | Louden |
| FIRMA | LOUDEN R B |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Southern Maine |
| VERIFICADO | No |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 45 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 100 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 39 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 7 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1983 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2021 |
| ÍNDICE H | 5 |
Kant and the “Old formula of the schools
In this essay I offer a new interpretation of Kant’s discussion of “the old formula of the schools” in the Critique of Practical Reason – “nihil appetimus, nisi sub ratione boni; nihil aversamur, nisi sub ratione mali [We desire nothing except under the guise of the good; nothing is avoided except under the guise of the bad]” (KPV 5: 59). This “old formula,” referred to in recent years as “the guise of the good thesis,” has been endorsed by a num…
Foucault’s Kant
Freedom from an Anthropological Point of View
The Moral Dimensions of Kant’s Anthropology
Education and the overcoming of evil
In this essay, I try to make sense out of Kant’s unusual concept of grace, particularly as regards its uneasy relationship to education within the context of the effort to overcome evil. The key to the puzzle, I argue, lies in what I call ‘moral receptivity’. Part of education’s job is to make us morally receptive to grace by preparing us for its possibility
Knowledge, Morals and Practice in Kant’s Anthropology
‘Wretched Subterfuge’? Comments on Frederick Rauscher’s Naturalism and Realism in Kant’s Ethics
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‘Total Transformation’
In this essay I argue that Kant remained committed to the necessity and fundamental importance of education throughout his career. Like Johann Bernhard Basedow (1724–90), Kant holds that a ‘total transformation’ of schools is necessary, and he holds this view not only in the 1770s but in his later years as well. In building my case I try to refute two recent opposing interpretations – Reinhard Brandt’s position that Kant’s early ‘education enthus…
Kant's shorter writings
This collection highlights the importance of Kant's shorter writings, which span the entire intellectual career of this seminal thinker. It contrasts with other philosophical studies of Kant's work, which typically focus on a specific period of his career, and on either his theoretical philosophy or his practical philosophy. These shorter works offer a framework for understanding several central questions of critical philosophy in the context of …
Why Be Moral?
What reasons do we have to be moral, and are these reasons more compelling than the reasons we have to pursue non-moral projects? Ever since the Sophists first raised this question, it has been a focal point of debate. Why be Moral? is a collection of new essays on this fundamental philosophical problem, written by an international team of leading scholars in the field.
Chapter 21. The Last Frontier
Nietzsche as Kant's True Heir
In this short article, I present several challenges to Maudemarie Clark and David Dudrick's bold claim that one of Nietzsche's main goals in Beyond Good and Evil is to establish himself as “Kant's true heir.” First, I critique their argument that the prefaces to the Critique of Pure Reason and BGE bear a “striking similarity” to each other. Second, I try to refute their claim that Nietzsche in BGE 11 is “positioning himself ... as the true succes…
Kant's Anatomy of Evil
Introduction 1. Kant's 'Metaphysics of Permanent Rupture': radical evil and the unity of reason Philip Rossi 2. Kantian moral pessimism Patrick Frierson 3. Kant, the Bible, and the recovery from radical evil Gordon Michalson 4. Kant's moral excluded middle Claudia Card 5. Evil everywhere: the ordinariness of Kantian radical evil Robert Louden 6. An alternative proof of the universal propensity to evil Pablo Muchnik 7. Kant and the intelligibility…
The Last Frontier
The first full English translation of Friedrich Theodor Rink's edition of Kant's Physical Geography was finally published in 2012, and several significant transcriptions of Kant's classroom lectures on physical geography are still forthcoming in volume 26 of the German Academy edition of his Collected Writings. Why has Kant's work on geography suffered from so much neglect? Contrary to received scholarly wisdom, I argue that the main cause of the…
Reply to Pablo Muchnik
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The Scope of Autonomy
Katerina Deligiorgi: The Scope of Autonomy: Kant and the Morality of Freedom. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012, pp. xvi + 233. £40.00 (hb.). ISBN 9780199646159. In The Scope of Autonomy, Kater
Anthropology, History, and Education
The character of the sexes
In all machines that are supposed to accomplish with little power just as much as those with great power, art must be put in. Consequently, one can already assume that the provision of nature put more art into the organization of the female part than of the male; for it furnished the man with greater power than the woman in order to bring both into the most intimate physical union, which, in so far as they are nevertheless also rational beings, i…
Lectures on Anthropology
Kant was one of the inventors of anthropology, and his lectures on anthropology were the most popular and among the most frequently given of his lecture courses. This volume contains the first translation of selections from student transcriptions of the lectures between 1772 and 1789, prior to the published version, Anthropology from a Pragmatic Point of View (1798), which Kant edited himself at the end of his teaching career. The two most extens…
Lectures on Anthropology
Kant was one of the inventors of anthropology, and his lectures on anthropology were the most popular and among the most frequently given of his lecture courses. This volume contains the first translation of selections from student transcriptions of the lectures between 1772 and 1789, prior to the published version, Anthropology from a Pragmatic Point of View (1798), which Kant edited himself at the end of his teaching career. The two most extens…
National Character via the Beautiful and Sublime?
Kant's Human Being
This title continues and deepens avenues of research first initiated in the author's highly acclaimed book, 'Kant's Impure Ethics'. Drawing on a wide variety of both published and unpublished works spanning all periods of Kant's extensive writing career, the author focuses on Kant's under-appreciated empirical work on human nature, with particular attention to the connections between this body of work and his much-discussed ethical theory
Anthropology from a Kantian point of view
Anthropology, History, and Education
Anthropology, History, and Education, first published in 2007, contains all of Kant's major writings on human nature. Some of these works, which were published over a thirty-nine year period between 1764 and 1803, had never before been translated into English. Kant's question 'What is the human being?' is approached indirectly in his famous works on metaphysics, epistemology, moral and legal philosophy, aesthetics and the philosophy of religion, …
Lectures on pedagogy (1803)
The Lectures on Pedagogy stem from a course on practical pedagogy that the philosophy faculty at the University of Königsberg was required to offer as well as to rotate among its professors. Kant taught the course four times: winter semester 1776–7, summer semester 1780, winter semester 1783–4, winter semester 1786–7. His text the first time he offered the course was Johann Bernhard Basedow's Methodenbuch für Väter und Mütter der Familien und Völ…
Kant’s Impure Ethics
This is the first book-length study in any language to examine in detail and critically assess the second part of Kant’s ethics—an empirical, impure part, which determines how best to apply pure principles to the human situation. Drawing attention to Kant’s under-explored impure ethics, this revealing investigation refutes the common and long-standing misperception that Kant’s ethics advocates empty formalism. Making detailed use of a variety of …
Kant's Human Being
This title continues and deepens avenues of research first initiated in the author's highly acclaimed book, 'Kant's Impure Ethics'. Drawing on a wide variety of both published and unpublished works spanning all periods of Kant's extensive writing career, the author focuses on Kant's under-appreciated empirical work on human nature, with particular attention to the connections between this body of work and his much-discussed ethical theory
Morality and Moral Theory
Contemporary philosophers are increasingly sceptical toward both morality and moral theory. Some argue that moral theory is a radically misguided enterprise which does not illuminate moral practice, while others simply deny the value of morality in human life. The author responds to the arguments of both 'anti-morality' and 'anti-theory' sceptics
Kant's Virtue Ethics
Among moral attributes true virtue alone is sublime. ... [I]t is only by means of this idea [of virtue] that any judgment as to moral worth or its opposite is possible. ... Everything good that is not based on a morally good disposition ... is nothing but pretence and glittering misery. 1
Kant's Anatomy of Evil
Introduction 1. Kant's 'Metaphysics of Permanent Rupture': radical evil and the unity of reason Philip Rossi 2. Kantian moral pessimism Patrick Frierson 3. Kant, the Bible, and the recovery from radical evil Gordon Michalson 4. Kant's moral excluded middle Claudia Card 5. Evil everywhere: the ordinariness of Kantian radical evil Robert Louden 6. An alternative proof of the universal propensity to evil Pablo Muchnik 7. Kant and the intelligibility…
The Scope of Autonomy
Katerina Deligiorgi: The Scope of Autonomy: Kant and the Morality of Freedom. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012, pp. xvi + 233. £40.00 (hb.). ISBN 9780199646159. In The Scope of Autonomy, Kater
The Last Frontier
The first full English translation of Friedrich Theodor Rink's edition of Kant's Physical Geography was finally published in 2012, and several significant transcriptions of Kant's classroom lectures on physical geography are still forthcoming in volume 26 of the German Academy edition of his Collected Writings. Why has Kant's work on geography suffered from so much neglect? Contrary to received scholarly wisdom, I argue that the main cause of the…
Kant and the “Old formula of the schools
In this essay I offer a new interpretation of Kant’s discussion of “the old formula of the schools” in the Critique of Practical Reason – “nihil appetimus, nisi sub ratione boni; nihil aversamur, nisi sub ratione mali [We desire nothing except under the guise of the good; nothing is avoided except under the guise of the bad]” (KPV 5: 59). This “old formula,” referred to in recent years as “the guise of the good thesis,” has been endorsed by a num…
Rights infatuation and the impoverishment of moral theory
Kant's Virtue Ethics
Among moral attributes true virtue alone is sublime. ... [I]t is only by means of this idea [of virtue] that any judgment as to moral worth or its opposite is possible. ... Everything good that is not based on a morally good disposition ... is nothing but pretence and glittering misery. 1
Morality and Moral Theory
Contemporary philosophers are increasingly sceptical toward both morality and moral theory. Some argue that moral theory is a radically misguided enterprise which does not illuminate moral practice, while others simply deny the value of morality in human life. The author responds to the arguments of both 'anti-morality' and 'anti-theory' sceptics
Morality and Moral Theory
Anthropology
Kant first offered his anthropology course in the winter semester of 1772–73 and taught it annually thereafter twenty-four times until his retirement in 1796. In a frequently cited letter to Marcus Herz written toward the end of 1773 he describes the aim of the course as follows
Dedication
What is Impure Ethics?
Kant makes a strong distinction between that part of a science which is allegedly “pure” or “absolutely independent of all experience” (KrV B 3) and that part which admits in empirical data and assumptions in its application to a particular body of experience. Natural and moral philosophy and (sometimes2) even logic are all held by Kant to require both pure and empirical parts (Gr 4:387-88, 410 n; KrV A 53-55). Like many scientists, philosophers,…
Education
As noted earlier, in The Metaphysics of Morals Kant describes the second part of practical philosophy, “moral anthropology,” as dealing with “the development, spreading, and strengthening of moral principles (in education in schools and in popular instruction), and with similar teachings and precepts based on experience” (6:217). This description of the sorts of questions moral anthropology is to address gives the second part of ethics a pronounc…
Art and Religion
The chief texts to be examined in this chapter are Kant’s Critique of Judgment (1790) and Religion Within the Boundaries of Mere Reason (1793). Both of these works are quite different from the Kantian lecture materials on education and anthropology examined in previous chapters in that they: (1) were published by Kant himself, (2) are mature works of the critical period, and (3) are intended primarily as contributions to his project of critical p…
Saved by impurity?
In the preceding chapters I have examined in detail the central fields or areas of Kant’s impure ethics as presented in his own published writings and related lecture materials. Because this second part of Kant’s ethics is not well known and often conflicts with the standard picture of his moral philosophy, and because there is also no single textual source in which it is presented, it was necessary to quote extensively from a wide variety of tex…
History
Kant’s writings on history occupy a middle position between the texts examined in earlier chapters, in the sense that they are neither edited versions of lectures he gave in various seminars nor large, systematic works that he published himself. Rather, his views on the philosophy of history for the most part are presented in short, informal essays published between the mid-l780s and mid-l790s, many of which first appeared in journals. Among the …
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Subject Moral Philosophy Philosophy of Mind 20th-Century Philosophy Collection: Oxford Scholarship Online
Kant’s Impure Ethics
This is the first book-length study in any language to examine in detail and critically assess the second part of Kant’s ethics—an empirical, impure part, which determines how best to apply pure principles to the human situation. Drawing attention to Kant’s under-explored impure ethics, this revealing investigation refutes the common and long-standing misperception that Kant’s ethics advocates empty formalism. Making detailed use of a variety of …
“What Does Heaven Say?”
In the present age of multiculturalism, professors on most campuses are encouraged (and in some places even required) to include favorable coverage of nonWestern cultures in their humanities and social science core courses. But in the not-too-distant-past one could get into serious trouble for pursuing this strategy. Consider the case of the German philosophy professor Christian Wolff, a man who, according to one recent study, has “influenced the…
Friedrich Schleiermacher
This 2002 book was the first English translation of Friedrich Schleiermacher's mature ethical theory. Situated between the better-known positions of Kant and Hegel, Schleiermacher's ethics represents an under-explored and singular option within the rich and creative tradition of German idealism. Schleiermacher is known to English readers primarily as a theologian and hermeneuticist, but many German scholars have argued that it is in fact his phil…
The Second Part of Morals
There are many important reasons for turning to Kant's lectures on anthropology. Anthropology was a new academic discipline in the late eighteenth century, and Kant played a pivotal role in its creation. Kant sometimes claims (and others have followed him on this point) that the fundamental questions of metaphysics, ethics, and religion "could all be reckoned to be anthropology," on the ground that they all refer to the question "What is the huma…
Friedrich Schleiermacher
Immanuel Kant
Anthropology from a Pragmatic Point of View essentially reflects the last lectures Kant gave for his annual course in anthropology, which he taught from 1772 until his retirement in 1796. The lectures were published in 1798, with the largest first printing of any of Kant's works. Intended for a broad audience, they reveal not only Kant's unique contribution to the newly emerging discipline of anthropology, but also his desire to offer students a …
Anthropology, History, and Education
Anthropology, History, and Education, first published in 2007, contains all of Kant's major writings on human nature. Some of these works, which were published over a thirty-nine year period between 1764 and 1803, had never before been translated into English. Kant's question 'What is the human being?' is approached indirectly in his famous works on metaphysics, epistemology, moral and legal philosophy, aesthetics and the philosophy of religion, …
Lectures on pedagogy (1803)
The Lectures on Pedagogy stem from a course on practical pedagogy that the philosophy faculty at the University of Königsberg was required to offer as well as to rotate among its professors. Kant taught the course four times: winter semester 1776–7, summer semester 1780, winter semester 1783–4, winter semester 1786–7. His text the first time he offered the course was Johann Bernhard Basedow's Methodenbuch für Väter und Mütter der Familien und Völ…
“Firm as a Rock in Her Own Principles”
The Persistence of Subjectivity
‘What is the fate of the Kantian ideal of the autonomous, rational, reflective individual for our own time?’ is perhaps the simplest way of summarizing the main theme of this wide‐ranging and complex book. How has the ideal been treated by a variety of post‐Kantian (particularly German) philosophers, and how is it also reflected in contemporary art and literature? To what extent is post‐Kantian suspicion about subjectivity warranted, and to what …
Kantian Moral Humility
Anthropology from a Kantian point of view
National Character via the Beautiful and Sublime?
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