Knowledge, Morals and Practice in Kant’s Anthropology

Gualtiero Lorini is Lecturer in Philosophy at the Catholic University of Milan, Italy, and an Alexander von Humboldt Research Fellow at the Institute of Philosophy of the Technische Universität Berlin, Germany. He is a member of the Kant-Gesellschaft and the North American Kant Society, and the author of the volume Fonti e lessico dell’ontologia kantiana. I corsi di metafisica (1762-1795) (Pisa: 2017). His research interests include German idealism, philosophical anthropology in 18th-Century Germany, and the interactions between Neo-Kantianism and Phenomenology.Robert B. Louden is Distinguished Professor and Professor of Philosophy at the University of Southern Maine, USA. A former president of the North American Kant Society (NAKS), Louden is also co-editor and translator of two volumes in The Cambridge Edition of the Works of Immanuel Kant. He co-edited his most recent book, Why Be Moral? (2015) with Beatrix Himmelmann and has published numerous books on Kant.

• 1. Introduction; Gualtiero Lorini-Robert B. Louden.- Part One:  Sources and Influences in Kant’s Definition of the Knowledge Concerning the     Human Being.- 2. Elucidations of the Sources of Kant’s Anthropology; Holly Wilson.- 3. Anthropology – A Legacy from Wolff to Kant?;Jean-François Goubet.- 4. Anthropology from a Logical Point of View: The Role of Inner Sense from Jungius to Kant; Matteo Favaretti Camposampiero.- 5. The Rules for Knowing the Human Being. Baumgarten’s Presence in Kant’s Anthropology; Gualtiero Lorini.- 6. Kant on the Vocation and Formation of the Human Being; Ansgar Lyssy.- Part Two: The Peculiarities of the Anthropological Knowledge in Kant: Metaphysics, Morals, Psychology, Politics.- 7. The Moral Dimensions of Kant’s Anthropology; Robert Louden.- .8. “Ein Spiel der Sinnlichkeit, durch den Verstand geordnet:” Kant’s Concept of Poetry and the Anthropological Revolution of Human Imagination; Fernando Silva.- 9. Somatology. Notes on a Residual Science in Kant and the 17th and 18th Centuries; Francesco Valerio Tommasi.- 10. Controlling Mental Disorder: Kant’s Account of Mental Illness in the Anthropology Writings; Nuria Sanchez Madrid.- Index.