The Enlightenment and Immanuel Kant
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The Enlightenment: the Historical Context for Kant's Philosophy |
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Existential Angst |
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| B. |
Free Will, Determinism, and Indeterminism |
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| C. |
Seven Characteristics of the French Enlightenment |
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| See the list of "Terms and Concepts to Remember on the Enlightenment."
In class we used that list rather than this outline to discuss the Enlightenment.
Still, the outline given here does represent the sequence in which we discussed
this material. |
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| II. |
Immanuet Kant |
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| A. |
Kant's Compromise: The End of the Rationalist/Empiricist Debate? |
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| B. |
Natural Laws as Laws of Cognition |
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| C. |
Kant's Skepticism about the "Big Questions" |
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| D. |
Practical Postulates |
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| E. |
Kant's Ethics (Duty Ethics, Good Will Ethics) |
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| See the list of "Terms and Concepts to Remember about Kant." In class we used that list rather than this outline to discuss Kant. Still, the outline given here does represent the sequence in which we discussed Kant's philosophy. |
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