Renaissance, The Enlightenment

Bachelor Thesis from the year 2015 in the subject Philosophy – Philosophy of the 17th and 18th Centuries, grade: 9/10, Utrecht University, language: Dutch; Flemish, abstract: Er bestaat geen onderzoe …

Kant’s Transcendental Semantics is a translation of the most influential monograph on Kant published in Brazil, one that launched the “Semantic School” in a country with a thriving tradition of Kant …

The essay collection ‘Kant on Proofs for God’s Existence’ provides a highly needed, comprehensive analysis of the radical turns of Kant’s views on proofs for God’s existence.—In the ‘Theory of Heaven …

Sex, love, and friendship play an integral role in Immanuel Kant’s conception of human life. Against common prejudices, Kant provides substantial contributions to the philosophical discussion of thes …

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 …

In explicit form, Kant does not speak that much about values or goods. The reason for this is obvious: the concepts of ‘values’ and ‘goods’ are part of the eudaimonistic tradition, and he famously cr …

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 …

How can we invent new certain knowledge in a methodical manner? This question stands at the heart of Salomon Maimon’s theory of invention. Chikurel argues that Maimon’s contribution to the ars inveni …

Präsentationsvideo (4. Folge der Reihe ‘ÖGE18 Update’) Anyone wishing to look beyond the paradigm of Western progress needs to understand how it came into being. In the intellectual culture of the 17 …

Since its publication in 1952, Leo Strauss’s Persecution and the Art of Writing has stirred considerable controversy, particularly among historians concerned with early modern philosophy. On the one …