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Understanding Moral Obligation
In many histories of modern ethics, Kant is supposed to have ushered in an anti-realist or constructivist turn by holding that unless we ourselves 'author' or lay down moral norms and values for ourselves, our autonomy as agents will be threatened. In this book, Robert Stern challenges the cogency of this 'argument from autonomy', and claims that Kant never subscribed to it. Rather, it is not value realism but the apparent obligatoriness of morality that really poses a challenge to our autonomy: how can this be accounted for without taking away our freedom? The debate the book focuses on therefore concerns whether this obligatoriness should be located in ourselves (Kant), in others (Hegel) or in God (Kierkegaard). Stern traces the historical dialectic that drove the development of these respective theories, and clearly and sympathetically considers their merits and disadvantages; he concludes by arguing that the choice between them remains open.
The Letter Liveth
Recently, there has been increased appreciation of the fact that August Friedrich Pott (18021887) possessed valuable insights and articulated uncommon positions in Indo-European comparative linguistics, general linguistics, and linguistic ethnology. This introduction and accompanying bibliography and catalogue aim to provide additional access routes to Pott's career by chronicling his life, works, and library collection.
The Printed Homer
The Greek poet Homer was one of the greatest and most influential poets of all time. His epicIliadandOdysseywere the foundation of Greek education and culture in the classical age ("Our earliest infancy was entrusted to the care of Homer," said Heraclitus 2500 years ago) and are widely read today. Nothing is known of Homer's life (some even doubt his existence) or of the composition of the two epics but we can assume that the texts that survive are not as they were originally formed in oral tradition. This is a publishing and translation history of the written forms of theIliadand theOdyssey.It first considers who Homer might have been and then explores the when and how of the creation of th...
Kant and Eighteenth-Century German Philosophy
The purpose of this anthology is to bring together in one volume some of the texts published in the series "Werkprofile", which focus on Kant’s relationship to his philosophical contemporaries and predecessors, and to make them accessible to a wider audience in English. In doing so, the volume is aimed at those who have an interest in better understanding the premises of Kant's philosophy, its historical context, and the development of many of Kant’s fundamental ideas. As it is often hard to glean philosophical motivation directly from reading Kant’s texts, understanding Kant’s commitment to answering certain questions and his silence on others, requires a historical approach. This b...
Das Kantorat des Ostseeraums im 18. Jahrhundert
Die Musikgeschichte der evangelisch-lutherischen Gebiete war seit der Reformation vom Wirken städtischer Kantoren geprägt. Ihr Amt als Lehrer und Musiker wurzelte im Grenzbereich von Kirche, Stadt und Schule. Die strukturellen Veränderungen dieser Institutionen im 18. Jahrhundert erfassten auch die Grundlagen des Kantorats, veränderten es und trugen in vielen Orten zu seinem Untergang bei. Im vorliegenden Band werden anhand zahlreicher Fallstudien einzelne Entwicklungen nachgezeichnet, die zugleich die jeweiligen lokalen Möglichkeiten und Notwendigkeiten im Umgang mit dem überkommenen Amt spiegeln. An der Fülle der dargebotenen Erscheinungsformen lässt sich der Prozess der sogenannten "Verbürgerlichung der Kunst" (E. Balet/E. Rebling) unmittelbar ablesen
Autonomy, Moral Worth, and Right
This book examines the surprising ramifications of Kant’s late account of practical reason’s obligatory ends as well as a revolutionary implication of his theory of property. It thereby sheds new light on Kant’s place in the history of modern moral philosophy.
Biographische Enzyklopädie deutschsprachiger Philosophen
Biographische Enzyklopadie deutschsprachiger Philosophen.
