Title Reason and experience in Mendelssohn and Kant / Paul Guyer

Edition First edition Published Oxford ; New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2020

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Description 1 online resource Contents Intro -- Halftitle page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Mendelssohn: -- Kant: -- Introduction -- 1. Prologue: The Prize Essays -- 1. The Competition -- 2. The Certainty of Mathematics in Mendelssohn and Kant -- 3. Mendelssohn and Kant on Metaphysical Knowledge -- 4. Mendelssohn's and Kant's Arguments for the Existence of God -- 5. Mendelssohn and Kant on the Metaphysics of Morality -- 6. Conclusion -- Part I. Metaphysics and Epistemology -- 2. Mendelssohn, Kant, and Proofs of the Existence of God in Kant's Pre-Critical Period 1. From Idea to Reality -- 2. Mendelssohn's Prize Essay -- 3. Kant: From the New Exposition to the Only Possible Basis -- 4. Mendelssohn's Response to the Only Possible Basis -- 3. Proofs of the Existence of God in the Critique of Pure Reason and Morning Hours -- 1. Kant: Critique of Pure Reason -- 2. Mendelssohn's Morning Hours -- 4. Mendelssohn and Kant on the Immortality of the Soul -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The Argument of Phaedo -- 3. Kant's Initial Assimilation of Mendelssohn's Conception of Immortality -- 4. Kant's Diminution of the Postulate of Personal Immortality 5. The Immortality of the Species rather than the Person -- 5. Mendelssohn, Kant, and Idealism -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Mendelssohn, Kant, and the Transcendental Ideality of Time -- 3. Mendelssohn's Refutation of Idealism in the Morning Hours -- 4. Mendelssohn's Modest Epistemology -- 5. Kant's Transcendental Idealism and Transcendental Refutation of Idealism -- Part II. Aesthetics -- 6 Mendelssohn's Aesthetics -- 7. Kant's Aesthetics -- 8. Mendelssohn's and Kant's Aesthetics Compared -- Part III. Religion, Politics, and History -- 9. Mendelssohn, Kant, and Enlightenment -- 1. Introduction 2. What is Enlightenment? -- 3. What Does It Mean to Orient Oneself in Thinking? -- 10. Freedom of Religion in Mendelssohn and Kant -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Locke -- 3. Mendelssohn -- 4. Kant on the Separation of Church and State -- 11. Judaism, Christianity, and the Religion of Pure Reason -- 12. Mendelssohn, Kant, and the Possibility of Progress -- 1. Abderitism or Chiliasm? -- 2. Kant's Moral Abderitism -- 3. Kant's Political Abderitism -- 4. Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index Summary Paul Guyer presents the first in-depth examination of the lifelong intellectual relationship between two of the greatest figures of the European Enlightenment, Immanuel Kant and Moses Mendelssohn. He explores their influence on each other and their disagreements, with particular focus on metaphysics, religion, and aesthetics Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on June 08, 2020) Subject Mendelssohn, Moses, 1729-1786. Kant, Immanuel, 1724-1804. Kant, Immanuel, 1724-1804 Mendelssohn, Moses, 1729-1786 Philosophers -- Germany -- 18th century Philosophers Germany Form Electronic book ISBN 9780192590671 0192590677 9780192590664 0192590669 9780191885389 019188538X

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