Renaissance, The Enlightenment

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 …

An unparalleled collection of original essays on Benedict de Spinoza’s contributions to philosophy and his enduring legacy A Companion to Spinoza presents a panoramic view of contemporary Spinoza stu …

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 …

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 …

In a focused assessment of one of the founding members of the liberal tradition in philosophy and a self-proclaimed ‘Under-Labourer’ working to support the scientific revolution of the seventeenth ce …

This monograph is a new interpretation of Kant’s àtemporal conception of the causality of the freedom of the will. The interpretation is based on an analysis of Kant’s primary conception of an action …

Offers comprehensive treatment of Thomas Hobbes’s thought, providing readers with different ways of understanding Hobbes as a systematic philosopher As one of the founders of modern political philoso …

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 …

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 …

Concepts of historical progress or decline and the idea of a cycle of historical movement have existed in many civilizations. In spite of claims that they be transnational or even universal, periodiz …