Kant's Modern Debates

Catalina González Quintero is Associate Professor in the Department of Philosophy at the University of the Andes, Colombia.

• List of Abbreviations Introduction Part I. Kant and the Modern Disputes concerning SkepticismChapter 1. Kant and the Anti-Skeptics: The Emergence of a Critical Language and Point of View Chapter 2. Kant, Skeptics, and Dogmatists on the Minds of AnimalsPart II. Kantian Secular Metaphysics: Infinity and DeismChapter 3. Theism, Deism, and Polytheism: Kant’s Critique of Hume’s Dialogues concerning Natural Religion Chapter 4. Kant’s and Pascal’s Secular Infinities Part III. Kant’s Ethics and Aesthetics vis-à-vis Ancient ThoughtChapter 5. Kant’s Groundwork and Cicero’s Stoic Ethics Chapter 6. Kant and Longinus’s Rhetorical Sublimes References

With a refreshing blend of historical scholarship and philosophical insight, this new book by Catalina González Quintero--an outstanding Latin American philosopher--is bound to become an obligatory reference point for those studying Kant and modern philosophy. From Prussian Anti-Skeptics and Pascal's 'terrifying wonder',,to the rationality of animals and the reception of Cicero's De Officiis by Garve and Kant; an invigorating plethora of topics and authors is here articulated into a systematic whole that may be described as a veritable challenge to the received canon. This volume underscores the truth that good philosophy is good history of philosophy, and that good historiography of philosophy is simply good philosophy.