Kant's Pragmatic Anthropology

Holly L. Wilson is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Louisiana at Monroe.

• Preface Key to References, Sources, Abbreviations, and TranslationsTable of the Moral and Natural Destinies of Human BeingsIntroduction1. The Rise and Origin of Kant’s Lectures on Anthropology The Physical Geography Lectures and the Rise of the Anthropology LecturesThe Debate Concerning the Origin of Kant’s Anthropology LecturesDid Kant Intend His Anthropology Lectures be Empirical Psychology?2. The Character and Content of the Anthropology The Meaning of Pragmatic AnthropologyTeleological Clues in the Characteristic of Kant’s Anthropology3. Kant’s Theory of Human Nature 4. Kant’s Theory of Human Nature as Natural Predispositions The Predisposition to AnimalityEvolutionary Theory and AnimalityThe Technical PredispositionThe Pragmatic Predisposition to HumanityThe Moral PredispositionEducation and the PredispositionsKant’s Theory of Education and Behaviorism5. The Critical Foundations of the Anthropology Teleology as a Research ProgramThe Critical Faculty of Teleological JudgmentSensibilityHabitsImaginationPleasure and DispleasureTasteAffectsPassionsNature Does Nothing in Vain6. Kant’s Pragmatic Anthropology as Popular Philosophy Is Popular Philosophy a Noble Endeavor? NotesBibliographyIndex