Lectures on AnthropologyKant was one of the inventors of anthropology, and his lectures on anthropology were the most popular and among the most frequently given of his lecture courses. This volume contains the first translation of selections from student transcriptions of the lectures between 1772 and 1789, prior to the published version, Anthropology from a Pragmatic Point of View (1798), which Kant edited himself at the end of his teaching career. The two most extensive texts, Anthropology Friedländer (1772) and Anthropology Mrongovius (1786), are presented here in their entirety, along with selections from all the other lecture transcriptions published in the Academy edition, together with sizeable portions of the Menschenkunde (1781-1782), first published in 1831. These lectures show that Kant had a coherent and well-developed empirical theory of human nature bearing on many other aspects of his philosophy, including cognition, moral psychology, politics and philosophy of history. |
Contents
by Allen W Wood | 15 |
Translated by Allen W Wood | 31 |
Preamble | 47 |
On the Different Acts of the Soul | 54 |
On the Difference of Sensibility and Relation to | 60 |
On Differences of the Senses Whether They Are Keen or Fine | 70 |
On the Imagination | 80 |
On Memory | 88 |
Fifth Chapter On Sensibility | 359 |
On Attention and Abstraction | 367 |
Now Some Additional General Remarks on the Senses | 374 |
On Principal and Adhering Representations | 381 |
On Wit and Power ofJudgment | 387 |
hihdmnory | 394 |
n Irean1n1g | 402 |
On the Faculty of Designation | 408 |
On Foreseeing | 96 |
On the Use of the Understanding | 103 |
Translated by Allen W Wood | 261 |
Translated by Robert B Louden | 289 |
Translated by Robert R Clewis | 339 |
First Chapter Introduction to Anthropology | 343 |
Third Chapter On Representations | 352 |
On the Imperfections of the Mind | 414 |
On Genius | 421 |
On the Faculty of Desire Second Chapter | 439 |
Anthropology Busolt I 7 881 789 excerpts | 515 |
Glossary | 564 |
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