Renaissance, Lumières

Benjamin Constant distinguished two kinds of government: unlawful government based on violence, and legitimate government based on the general will. In Europe monarchy was for over a thousand years c …

This collection of 28 original essays examines the diverse scope of John Locke’s contributions as a celebrated philosopher, empiricist, and father of modern political theory. * Explores the impact of …

Palmquist’s Commentary provides the first definitive clarification on Kant’s Philosophy of Religion in English; it includes the full text of Pluhar’s translation, interspersed with explanations, prov …

Presents a concise and comprehensive analysis of George Berkeley’s thought and the impact of his intellectual contributions to philosophy In this latest addition to the Blackwell Great Minds series, …

In a short chapter of the Critique of Practical Reason entitled “On the Typic of the Pure Practical Power of Judgment, ” Kant addresses a crucial problem facing his theory of moral judgment: How can …

In the past few decades a remarkable change occurred in Kant scholarship: the ‘other’ Kant has been discovered, i.e. the one of the doctrine of virtue and the anthropology. Through the rediscovery of …

Kant’s omnipresence in contemporary cosmopolitan discourses contrasts with the fact that little is known about the historical origins and the systematic status of his cosmopolitan theory. This study …

In the third Critique Kant details an aesthetic operation of judgment that is surprising considering how judgment functioned in the first Critique. In this book, I defend an understanding of Kant’s t …

Nearly all philosophers refer to Kant when debating the concept of dignity, and many approve of Kant’s conception, unaware of the tensions between Kant’s conception and the modern idea of dignity int …

Der in Leipzig lehrende Philosoph und Theologe Christian August Crusius (1715–1775) ist bisher vorwiegend im Rahmen der Kant-Forschung berücksichtigt worden. Dabei war Crusius einer der ersten ernstz …