John Hymers
Biographic Data
| ID | 4490769 |
|---|---|
| NAME | John Hymers |
| GIVEN NAMES | John |
| FAMILY NAME | Hymers |
| SIGNATURE | HYMERS J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Associate Professor of Philosophy, La Salle University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 3 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 3 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Baumgarten and Kant on the Foundations of Practical Philosophy
Baumgarten's Philosophical Ethics: A Critical Translation
Alexander Baumgarten's Ethica Philosophica (1740) served as a chief textbook of philosophical instruction in German universities for several decades, and was used by Immanuel Kant for his lectures on moral philosophy between 1759 and 1794. Now translated into English for the first time, John Hymers explores the extent of Baumgarten's influence on the development of German philosophy. Accompanied by an introduction to Baumgarten and his work, this…
Baumgarten and Kant on Metaphysics
This volume collects together eleven essays on Alexander Baumgarten’s Metaphysics and its relation to the philosophy of Immanuel Kant. The early chapters examine Baumgarten’s philosophy in its historical context, including its link with both Pietism and rationalism. The later chapters explore the many ways in which Kant criticized and built upon Baumgarten’s Metaphysics .
Baumgarten and Kant on Existence
This chapter reexamines Baumgarten’s definition of “existence” with an eye to evaluating Kant’s criticisms of this definition in his pre-Critical writings. Fugate shows that Baumgarten sharply distinguishes existence, as a specific content, from actuality, as the determination of that same content, in a way that has gone unnoticed by previous commentators. After explaining the implications of this discovery for our understanding of Baumgarten’s v…
Preparation for Natural Theology: With Kant’s Notes and the Danzig Rational Theology Transcript
Designed as a textbook for use in courses on natural theology and used by Immanuel Kant as the basis for his Lectures on The Philosophical Doctrine of Religion, Johan August Eberhard’s Preparation for Natural Theology (1781) is now available in English for the first time. With a strong focus on the various intellectual debates and historically significant texts in late renaissance and early modern theology, Preparation for Natural Theology influe…
Preparation for Natural Theology: With Kant's Notes and the Danzig Rational Theology Transcript
Baumgarten and Kant on Existence
This chapter reexamines Baumgarten’s definition of “existence” with an eye to evaluating Kant’s criticisms of this definition in his pre-Critical writings. Fugate shows that Baumgarten sharply distinguishes existence, as a specific content, from actuality, as the determination of that same content, in a way that has gone unnoticed by previous commentators. After explaining the implications of this discovery for our understanding of Baumgarten’s v…
Preparation for Natural Theology: With Kant’s Notes and the Danzig Rational Theology Transcript
Designed as a textbook for use in courses on natural theology and used by Immanuel Kant as the basis for his Lectures on The Philosophical Doctrine of Religion, Johan August Eberhard’s Preparation for Natural Theology (1781) is now available in English for the first time. With a strong focus on the various intellectual debates and historically significant texts in late renaissance and early modern theology, Preparation for Natural Theology influe…
Preparation for Natural Theology: With Kant's Notes and the Danzig Rational Theology Transcript
Baumgarten and Kant on Metaphysics
This volume collects together eleven essays on Alexander Baumgarten’s Metaphysics and its relation to the philosophy of Immanuel Kant. The early chapters examine Baumgarten’s philosophy in its historical context, including its link with both Pietism and rationalism. The later chapters explore the many ways in which Kant criticized and built upon Baumgarten’s Metaphysics .
Baumgarten and Kant on Existence
This chapter reexamines Baumgarten’s definition of “existence” with an eye to evaluating Kant’s criticisms of this definition in his pre-Critical writings. Fugate shows that Baumgarten sharply distinguishes existence, as a specific content, from actuality, as the determination of that same content, in a way that has gone unnoticed by previous commentators. After explaining the implications of this discovery for our understanding of Baumgarten’s v…
Baumgarten's Philosophical Ethics: A Critical Translation
Alexander Baumgarten's Ethica Philosophica (1740) served as a chief textbook of philosophical instruction in German universities for several decades, and was used by Immanuel Kant for his lectures on moral philosophy between 1759 and 1794. Now translated into English for the first time, John Hymers explores the extent of Baumgarten's influence on the development of German philosophy. Accompanied by an introduction to Baumgarten and his work, this…
Baumgarten and Kant on the Foundations of Practical Philosophy
Epistemology (4 works) · Philosophy (4 works) · Philosophical Ethics and Theory (3 works) · History (2 works) · Natural theology (2 works) · Sociology (2 works) · Theology and Philosophy of Evil (2 works) · Archaeology (1 works) · Argument (complex analysis (1 works) · Congresses (1 works)