Kant's Observations and Remarks A Critical Guide Shell Velkley Hardback

Kant's Observations and RemarksA Critical Guide\nAuthor(s): Susan Meld Shell, Richard Velkley\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Cambridge University Press, United Kingdom\nImprint: Cambridge University Press\nISBN-13: 9780521769426, 978-0521769426\nSynopsis\nKant's Observations of 1764 and Remarks of [tel]a set of fragments written in the margins of his copy of the Observations) document a crucial turning point in his life and thought. Both reveal the growing importance for him of ethics, anthropology and politics, but with an important difference. The Observations attempts to observe human nature directly. The Remarks, by contrast, reveals a revolution in Kant's thinking, largely inspired by Rousseau, who 'turned him around' by disclosing to Kant the idea of a 'state of freedom' (modelled on the state of nature) as a touchstone for his thinking. This and related thoughts anticipate such famous later doctrines as the categorical imperative. This collection of essays by leading Kant schol.