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The Critique of Practical Reason is the second of Kant's three Critiques, following Critique of Pure Reason. In it he distinguishes between actual practical reason and desire-based practical reason, arguing for the first and against the application of the second. He sees practical reason as something to be cultivated and moreover believes Freedom can be proven by it.
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Very short introductions volume 50
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
2001.
Language
English
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Immanuel Kant is arguably the most influential modern philosopher, but is also one of the most difficult. In this illuminating Very Short Introduction, Roger Scruton--a well-known and controversial philosopher in his own right--tackles his exceptionally complex subject with a strong hand, exploring the background to Kant's work and showing why Critique of Pure Reason has proved so enduring.
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[Hanno Stiffeniis series] volume 1
Publisher
Thomas Dunne Books
Pub. Date
2006.
Language
English
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Arriving in the city of Königsberg to help solve a series of murders, young detective Hanno Stiffeniis joins forces with his mentor, philosopher Immanuel Kant, to track down a serial killer, in a historical mystery set in early nineteenth-century Prussia.
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Simon and Schuster
Pub. Date
c1961.
Language
English
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Not only the titans of older days but the most famous modern philosophers are here presented and illuminated -- including Bergson, Croce, Russell, and Dewey. The book also examines the philosophers' setting in their own time and place, and their influence on our modern intellectual heritage. Here, in one book for the layman, is a whole university course in philosophy, written in Durant's unique, lively, and concise style.
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The Teaching Company
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
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This course explores how leading Western philosophers and theologians such as Kant, Kierkegaard, Marx, Nietzsche, Freud, Martin Buber, Bertrand Russell, Martin Heidegger, Rowan Williams, and Jacques Derrida have defined and debated, defended and attacked religion. Some are pious and some are atheists. Some are philosophers who explain why religion is essential for human life, and some are philosophers who just as rationally explain why religion is...
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