Includes bibliographical references (p. 266-277) and index.
Contents:
Introduction : Kant as youthful observer and legislator / Susan Meld Shell and Richard Velkley -- 1. Concerning Kant's earliest ethics : an attempt at reconstruction / Dieter Henrich -- 2. Chimerical ethics and fluttering moralists : Baumgarten's influence on Kant's moral theory in the Observations and Remarks / Corey W. Dyck -- 3. Two concepts of universality in Kant's moral theory / Patrick W. Frierson -- 4. Freedom as the foundation of morality : Kant's early efforts / Paul Guyer -- 5. Relating aesthetic and sociable feelings to moral and participatory feelings : reassessing Kant on sympathy and honor / Rudolf A. Makkreel -- 6. Kant's distinction between true and false sublimity / Robert R. Clewis -- 7. Kant's "curious catalogue of human frailties" and the great portrait of nature / Alix Cohen -- 8. Relative goodness and ambivalence of human traits : reflections in light of Kant's pedagogical concerns / G. Felicitas Munzel --9. Kant as rebel against the social order / Reinhard Brandt -- 10. National character via the beautiful and sublime? / Robert B. Louden -- 11. Absent an even finer feeling : a commentary on the opening of Observations on the feeling of the beautiful and sublime / Peter Fenves -- 2. The pursuit of science as decadence in Kant's Remarks in "Observations on the feeling of the beautiful and sublime" / John H. Zammito -- 13. Kant, human nature, and history after Rousseau / Karl Ameriks.
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