Book contents
- Kant’sLectures on Anthropology
- Series page
- Kant’sLectures on Anthropology
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Tables
- List of contributors
- Preface
- Translations and abbreviations
- Introduction
- Chapter 1 Kant’s lectures on anthropology: some orienting remarks
- Chapter 2 Self-cognition and self-assessment
- Chapter 3 Kant on the phenomenology of touch and vision
- Chapter 4 Meat on the bones: Kant’s account of cognition in the anthropology lectures
- Chapter 5 The anthropology of cognition and its pragmatic implications
- Chapter 6 Affects and passions
- Chapter 7 The inclination toward freedom
- Chapter 8 Empirical desire
- Chapter 9 Kant as “vitalist”: the “principium of life” inAnthropologie Friedländer
- Chapter 10 Indispensable education of the being of reason and speech
- Chapter 11 Kant on civilisation, culture and moralisation
- Chapter 12 Cosmopolitical unity: the final destiny of the human species
- Chapter 13 What a young man needs for his venture into the world: the function and evolution of the “Characteristics”
- Bibliography
- Index
Chapter 7 - The inclination toward freedom
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Book contents
- Kant’sLectures on Anthropology
- Series page
- Kant’sLectures on Anthropology
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Tables
- List of contributors
- Preface
- Translations and abbreviations
- Introduction
- Chapter 1 Kant’s lectures on anthropology: some orienting remarks
- Chapter 2 Self-cognition and self-assessment
- Chapter 3 Kant on the phenomenology of touch and vision
- Chapter 4 Meat on the bones: Kant’s account of cognition in the anthropology lectures
- Chapter 5 The anthropology of cognition and its pragmatic implications
- Chapter 6 Affects and passions
- Chapter 7 The inclination toward freedom
- Chapter 8 Empirical desire
- Chapter 9 Kant as “vitalist”: the “principium of life” inAnthropologie Friedländer
- Chapter 10 Indispensable education of the being of reason and speech
- Chapter 11 Kant on civilisation, culture and moralisation
- Chapter 12 Cosmopolitical unity: the final destiny of the human species
- Chapter 13 What a young man needs for his venture into the world: the function and evolution of the “Characteristics”
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
This chapter describes freedom as the end that is necessary in itself, and illustrates the development of Immanuel Kant's thought about the inclination to freedom and its cultivation and education in his anthropological and pedagogical lectures. The idea of freedom as the necessary end on which morality is based is also present in the introduction to Kant's lectures on natural right as recorded by Gottfried Feyerabend. In the lectures on anthropology, Kant always presents the inclination to freedom as one of two general or formal inclinations that one has, alongside the inclination to resources or means. Proper upbringing and education can develop a proper enthusiasm for the freedom of all that can prevent the original inclination toward own freedom from turning into a violent passion aimed exclusively at that, a passion that can lead to the desire for vengeance instead of justice that is excitable through mere self-love.
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- Kant's Lectures on AnthropologyA Critical Guide, pp. 114 - 132Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2014
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