1st Edition

Kant for Everyman

By Elizabeth Wright Copyright 1951
    158 Pages
    by Routledge

    158 Pages
    by Routledge

    First published in 1951. This title aims to familiarise the reader with the ideas of the sometimes difficult philosopher Immanuel Kant by presenting them in a more comprehensible form. Kant for Everyman provides an overview of the different stages in Kant’s life, and delivers a breakdown of his philosophical ideology. This title will be of interest to students of philosophy.

    Foreword;  Part One: Life and Activities;  1. Early Environment  2. In the Collegium Fredericianum  3. At the University  4. Kant as a Private Tutor  5. Years as a ‘Magister’  6. Kant as a Professor  7. Kant and Women  8. Social Life and Personal Appearance  9. Daily Routine  10. Character and Personality  11. Kant and Art  12. Kant and his Brothers and Sisters  13. Kant in Old Age  14. Kant’s Conflict with Prussian Reaction  15. Life’s End  16. The Funeral;  Part Two: Kant’s Philosophy;  1. Philosophy as a Science  2. Kant’s Theory of Cognition  3. Kant’s Ethic  4. From Kant’s Moral Teaching  5. From Kant’s Philosophy of Life  6. Kant and Religion  7. Kant on Christianity  8. Kant as a Political Writer  9. Kant on Education  10. Appreciation of Kant;  Chronological List of Kant’s Works;  Some Recent English Translations of Kant’s Works;  Bibliography;  Index

    Biography

    Authored by Klinke, Willibald