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We all know what Kant means by autonomy: "the property of the
will by which it is a law to itself (independently of any property of
the objects of volition)" (G, 4:440), or, since any law
must be universal, the condition of an agent who is "subject
only to laws given by himself but still universal"
(G, 4:432). Or do we know what Kant means by autonomy? There
are a number of questions here. First, Kant's initial definition
of autonomy itself raises the question of why the property of the will
being a law to itself should be equivalent to its independence from any
property of objects of volition. It is also natural to ask, how does
autonomy as Kant conceives it relate to more familiar notions of freedom.
For example, consider Locke's conception of freedom as the condition
of a person "to think, or not to think; to move, or not to move,
according to the preference or direction of his own mind," rather
than according to the preference or direction of any other person. What
is the relation between autonomy and this traditional conception of
freedom as the liberty of an agent? And what is the relation of autonomy
to the traditional conception of freedom of the will; that is, the
condition that obtains, as G. E.

Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- General editors preface -- Introduction -- i. the contents of this volume -- ii. the history of kants handschriftliche nachlabeta -- iii. chronology and style -- Acknowledgments -- 113;Selections from the Notes on the13;Observations on the Feeling of the13;Beautiful and Sublime -- 2 Notes on Logic -- i. notes on meiers introduction1 -- ii. notes to the body of meiers auszug aus der vernunftlehre -- 3 Notes on Metaphysics -- i.13;notes prior to 1773 -- Prolegomena Metaphysicorum. -- On freedom -- ii. from the duisburg nachlabeta to the first critique: 17731780 -- R 46744684: Loose sheets from the Duisburg Nachlabeta -- iii. notes from the 1780s1 -- Summary Concept -- Tiedemann -- Metaphysics. -- On existence in subjects in general. -- On Metaphysics. -- Against material idealism. -- Preface -- Against Idealism. -- Answer to the question: Is it an experience that we think? -- Comments on this Essay. -- On Miracles64 -- Comments. -- On the formal and material sense of some words. -- On the rule in general. -- On the existence of outer things. -- On space and time. -- Argumentum on the objective reality of time. -- Deduction of pure cognitions a priori. -- On philosophical enthusiasm.,11 -- In moral theology -- iv. notes from the 1790s81 -- 4 Notes on Moral Philosophy -- i. notes from anthropology, logic, and metaphysics -- ii. notes on moral philosophy from 1764 to 1770 -- iii. notes from 17701775 -- Power of Choice in Community -- iv. notes from 17761778 -- Power of Choice in Community -- v. notes from the 1780s -- Toward practical philosophy. -- Principles of obligation -- vi. notes from the 1790s. -- 5 Aesthetics -- i. anthropology notes from 17691778. -- ii. anthropology notes from the 1780s -- iii. outlines for the course on anthropology, 17761784. -- iv. notes from the reflections on logic. -- Notes -- Notes to Introduction -- Notes to Chapter 1 -- Notes to Chapter 2 -- Notes to Chapter 3 -- Notes to Chapter 4 -- Notes to Chapter 5 -- Glossary -- Index to Kants Texts.

This Element surveys the place of the Critique of Pure Reason in Kant's overall philosophical project and describes and analyzes the main arguments of the work. It also surveys the developments in Kant's thought that led to the first critique, and provides an account of the genesis of the book during the 'silent decade' of its composition in the 1770s based on Kant's handwritten notes from the period.

This volume collects Kant's most important ethical and anthropological writings from the 1760s, before he developed his critical philosophy. The materials presented here range from the Observations, one of Kant's most elegantly written and immediately popular texts, to the accompanying Remarks which Kant wrote in his personal copy of the Observations and which are translated here in their entirety for the first time. This edition also includes little-known essays as well as personal notes and fragments that reveal the emergence of Kant's complex philosophical ideas. Those familiar with Kant's later works will discover a Kant interested in the 'beauty' as well as the 'dignity' of humanity, in human diversity as well as the universality of morals, and in practical concerns rather than abstract philosophizing. Readers will be able to see Kant's development from the Observations through the Remarks towards the moral philosophy that eventually made him famous