Kant 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 Friedlander (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 (1781-2), 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.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
ISBN-13
9781107583504
eBay Product ID (ePID)
216769494
Product Key Features
Book Title
Lectures on Anthropology
Author
Immanuel Kant
Format
Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Popular Philosophy
Publication Year
2015
Number of Pages
640 Pages
Dimensions
Item Height
234mm
Item Width
156mm
Item Weight
900 g
Additional Product Features
Title_Author
Immanuel Kant
Translator
Robert B. Louden, Allen w. Wood
Series Title
The Cambridge Edition of the Works of Immanuel Kant