Kant in Brazil: apropos Kant's critique of the Cartesian ontological argument

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Frederick Rauscher, Daniel Omar Perez
University Rochester Press, 2012 - History - 375 pages
A selection of the best papers written by Brazilian Kant scholars.

Kant in Brazil is a collected volume of essays conceived at the 2005 International Kant Congress in Sao Paulo as a way to make accessible to Anglophone Kant scholars some of the best work on Kant produced by Brazilian scholars. The availability of this material in English for the first time will promote interaction between North American and Brazilian scholars as well as enable Anglophone readers worldwide to incorporate excellent but previously neglected work into their own debates about Kant.

The book contains an editor's introduction providing an overview of the institutional structure of Kant studies in Brazil. The essays that follow, translated from Portuguese, include a survey of the history of Kant studies in Brazil over the past two centuries as well as interpretive essays that span the corpus of Kant's work in theoretical philosophy, ethics, political philosophy, history, aesthetics, and teleology. Various styles of philosophy are put into practice as well: analytical, philological, reflective, comparative, displaying the broad and diverse nature of Brazilian philosophy.

Frederick Rauscher isassociate professor of philosophy at Michigan State University. Daniel Omar Perez is professor of philosophy at the Pontifical Catholic University of Parana, Brazil.

 

Contents

Two Centuries of Kantian Studies in Brazil
14
Intuitive Knowledge and De Re Thought
56
Apropos
81
An Experiment with Practical Reason
98
Critique Deduction and the Fact of Reason
127
The Noncircular Deduction of the Categorical Imperative
155
The Distinction between Right and Ethics in Kants Philosophy
173
Right and the Duty to Resist or Progress toward the Better
189
The Fundamental Problem of Kants Juridical Semantics
206
Right History and Practical Schematism
236
A Typology of Love in Kants Philosophy
271
Between Prescriptive Poetics and Philosophical Aesthetics
295
Notes on Schiller
321
Reading the Appendix to Kants Critique of
337
Bibliography of Works in German and English
359
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Bibliographic information

TitleKant in Brazil: apropos Kant's critique of the Cartesian ontological argument
Volume 10 of Kant in Brazil, Frederick Rauscher
Volume 10 of North American Kant Society studies in philosophy, North American Kant Society
Volume 10 of North American Kant Society: North American Kant Society studies in philosophy
EditorsFrederick Rauscher, Daniel Omar Perez
PublisherUniversity Rochester Press, 2012
ISBN1580464157, 9781580464154
Length375 pages
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