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  • Kant and the Supposed Right to Lie

    by Jens Timmermann ...
    In his 1797 essay 'On a Supposed Right to Lie from Love of Humanity', Kant argues that when only a confident lie might save a friend, one must, if asked, reply truthfully and thus betray his hiding-place to the person who wants to kill him. This is the first monograph to explore Kant's essay in detail. Jens Timmermann examines the background of the piece (Kant was provoked by Benjamin Constant and ... Read more

    $90.19 USD

  • Kant's Will at the Crossroads

    An Essay on the Failings of Practical Rationality

    by Jens Timmermann ...
    What happens when human beings fail to do as reason bids? This book is an attempt to address this age-old question within Kant's mature practical philosophy, i.e. the practical philosophy that emerged with the watershed discovery of autonomy in the mid-1780s. As always, Kant is good for a surprise. There is, it is argued, not one answer but two: He advocates Socratic intellectualism in the realm ... Read more

    $75.59 USD

  • Kant: Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals

    Series series Cambridge Texts in the History of Philosophy
    Published in 1785, Immanuel Kant's Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals ranks alongside Plato's Republic and Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics as one of the most profound and influential works in moral philosophy ever written. In Kant's own words, its aim is to identify and corroborate the supreme principle of morality, the categorical imperative. He argues that human beings are ends in themselves ... Read more

    $19.69 USD

  • The Cambridge History of Moral Philosophy

    Edited by Jens Timmermann, Sacha Golob ...
    With fifty-four chapters charting the development of moral philosophy in the Western world, this volume examines the key thinkers and texts and their influence on the history of moral thought from the pre-Socratics to the present day. Topics including Epicureanism, humanism, Jewish and Arabic thought, perfectionism, pragmatism, idealism and intuitionism are all explored, as are figures including ... Read more

    $34.49 USD

  • Kant's 'Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals'

    A Critical Guide

    Edited by Jens Timmermann ...
    Series series Cambridge Critical Guides
    In his Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals, Immanuel Kant portrays the supreme moral principle as an unconditional imperative that applies to all of us because we freely choose to impose upon ourselves a law of pure practical reason. Morality is revealed to be a matter of autonomy. Today, this approach to ethical theory is as perplexing, controversial and inspiring as it was in 1785, when the ... Read more

    $38.59 USD

  • Kant's 'Critique of Practical Reason'

    A Critical Guide

    Edited by Andrews Reath, Jens Timmermann ...
    Series series Cambridge Critical Guides
    The Critique of Practical Reason is the second of Kant's three Critiques, and his second work in moral theory after the Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals. Its systematic account of the authority of moral principles grounded in human autonomy unfolds Kant's considered views on morality and provides the keystone to his philosophical system. The essays in this volume shed light on the principal ... Read more

    $38.59 USD

  • Ultra-wideband RF System Engineering

    Edited by Thomas Zwick, Werner Wiesbeck, Jens Timmermann, Grzegorz Adamiuk ...
    Series series EuMA High Frequency Technologies Series
    This comprehensive summary of the state of the art in Ultra Wideband (UWB) system engineering takes you through all aspects of UWB design, from components through the propagation channel to system engineering aspects. Mathematical tools and basics are covered, allowing for a complete characterisation and description of the UWB scenario, in both the time and the frequency domains. UWB MMICs, ... Read more

    $81.19 USD

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    An Essay in Applied Phenomenology

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  • Kant and Education

    Interpretations and Commentary

    Edited by Klas Roth, Chris Surprenant ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Contemporary Philosophy
    Immanuel Kant’s moral philosophy, political philosophy, and philosophy of judgement have been and continue to be widely discussed among many scholars. The impact of his thinking is beyond doubt and his ideas continue to inspire and encourage an on-going dialogue among many people in our world today. Given the historical and philosophical significance of Kant’s moral, political, and aesthetic ... Read more

    $82.99 USD

  • Anthropology, History, and Education

    by Immanuel Kant, Robert B. Louden, Günter Zöller ...
    Series series The Cambridge Edition of the Works of Immanuel Kant
    Anthropology, History, and Education, first published in 2007, contains all of Kant's major writings on human nature. Some of these works, which were published over a thirty-nine year period between 1764 and 1803, had never before been translated into English. Kant's question 'What is the human being?' is approached indirectly in his famous works on metaphysics, epistemology, moral and legal ... Read more

    $49.19 USD

  • Lectures on Kant's Political Philosophy

    by Hannah Arendt ...
    "Beiner's essay traces the development of Arendt's thoughts on judgment and offers a lucid summary and thoughtful critique of the Kant lectures." —William A. Galston, Journal of PoliticsHannah Arendt's last philosophical work was an intended three-part project entitled The Life of the Mind. Unfortunately, Arendt lived to complete only the first two parts, Thinking and Willing. Of the third, ... Read more

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  • Man for Himself

    An Inquiry Into the Psychology of Ethics

    by Erich Fromm ...
    The New York Times –bestselling author and social philosopher explores the function of ethics and morality in the human psyche: "A fascinating volume . . . magnificent in its implications" ( Saturday Review ).Are we primarily determined by nature or nurture? What are the best ways that people can live productively? In Man for Himself, renowned social philosopher Erich Fr... ... Read more

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