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 of prudence whilst defending an anti-intellectualist...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0192896032
• ISBN13: 9780192896032
• Release Date: December 2022
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 188 Pages
• Weight: 0.99 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.4" x 9.5"