Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Note on Sources and Abbreviations
- Introduction
- 1 Two Centuries of Kantian Studies in Brazil
- 2 Self-Consciousness and Objective Knowledge in the Transcendental Deduction of the Critique of Pure Reason
- 3 Intuitive Knowledge and De Re Thought
- 4 Predicative Judgments and Existential Judgments: Apropos Kant's Critique of the Cartesian Ontological Argument
- 5 An Experiment with Practical Reason
- 6 On the Faktum of Reason
- 7 Critique, Deduction, and the Fact of Reason
- 8 The Noncircular Deduction of the Categorical Imperative in Groundwork III
- 9 The Distinction between Right and Ethics in Kant's Philosophy
- 10 Right and the Duty to Resist, or Progress toward the Better
- 11 The Fundamental Problem of Kant's Juridical Semantics
- 12 Right, History, and Practical Schematism
- 13 Cosmopolitanism: Kant and Kantian Themes in International Relations
- 14 A Typology of Love in Kant's Philosophy
- 15 The Meaning of the Term Gemüt in Kant
- 16 Between Prescriptive Poetics and Philosophical Aesthetics
- 17 The Purposiveness of Taste: An Essay on the Role of Zweckmässigkeit in Kant's Critique of Aesthetic Judgment
- 18 Freedom in Appearance: Notes on Schiller and His Development of Kant's Aesthetics
- 19 Reading the Appendix to Kant's Critique of the Teleological Power of Judgment
- 20 Symbolization in Kant's Critical Philosophy
- Bibliography of Works in German and English
- List of Contributors
- Index
1 - Two Centuries of Kantian Studies in Brazil
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 February 2013
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Note on Sources and Abbreviations
- Introduction
- 1 Two Centuries of Kantian Studies in Brazil
- 2 Self-Consciousness and Objective Knowledge in the Transcendental Deduction of the Critique of Pure Reason
- 3 Intuitive Knowledge and De Re Thought
- 4 Predicative Judgments and Existential Judgments: Apropos Kant's Critique of the Cartesian Ontological Argument
- 5 An Experiment with Practical Reason
- 6 On the Faktum of Reason
- 7 Critique, Deduction, and the Fact of Reason
- 8 The Noncircular Deduction of the Categorical Imperative in Groundwork III
- 9 The Distinction between Right and Ethics in Kant's Philosophy
- 10 Right and the Duty to Resist, or Progress toward the Better
- 11 The Fundamental Problem of Kant's Juridical Semantics
- 12 Right, History, and Practical Schematism
- 13 Cosmopolitanism: Kant and Kantian Themes in International Relations
- 14 A Typology of Love in Kant's Philosophy
- 15 The Meaning of the Term Gemüt in Kant
- 16 Between Prescriptive Poetics and Philosophical Aesthetics
- 17 The Purposiveness of Taste: An Essay on the Role of Zweckmässigkeit in Kant's Critique of Aesthetic Judgment
- 18 Freedom in Appearance: Notes on Schiller and His Development of Kant's Aesthetics
- 19 Reading the Appendix to Kant's Critique of the Teleological Power of Judgment
- 20 Symbolization in Kant's Critical Philosophy
- Bibliography of Works in German and English
- List of Contributors
- Index
Summary
The Beginning: Kant in Brazil during the Empire
When Napoleon invaded Portugal in 1807, Prince Regent Dom João de Bragança decided to move his family and transfer the whole court to Brazil, departing on November 29, 1807, and arriving in Brazil in March 1808. That same year the Royal Library was installed in the hospital of the Third Order of the Carmelites (Carmo) in Rio de Janeiro. Might Philosophie de Kant, ou principes fondamentaux de la philosophie transcendantale (Kant's philosophy, or the fundamental principles of the transcendental philosophy) (1801) by Charles Villers, a work that arrived in Brazil as part of the library of the prince regent and future emperor along with the royal family, have been the first text to publicize the thought of the German philosopher in Brazil? We certainly do not have information of any earlier references.
Historians, in any event, maintain that Francisco Bento Targini, Viscount of São Lourenço, also known as Francisco Vilela Barbosa Targini, Marquis of Paranaguá, was one of the first to transmit the ideas of Immanuel Kant, in addition to writing several books himself and translating Milton's Paradise Lost and Pope's Essay on Man. This task was no mere leisure activity.
- Type
- Chapter
- Information
- Kant in Brazil , pp. 14 - 25Publisher: Boydell & BrewerPrint publication year: 2012