Kant's Observations and Remarks: A Critical Guide Book

Introduction: Kant as youthful observer and legislator Susan Meld Shell and Richard Velkley; Part I. Kant's Ethical Thought: Sources and Stages: 1. Concerning Kant's earliest ethics: an attempt at a reconstruction Dieter Henrich; 2. Chimerical ethics and flattering moralists: Baumgarten's influence on Kant's moral theory in the Observations and Remarks Corey W. Dyck; 3. Two concepts of universality in Kant's moral theory Patrick R. Frierson; 4. Freedom as the foundation of morality: Kant's early efforts Paul Guyer; Part II. Ethics and Aesthetics: 5. Relating aesthetic and sociable feelings to moral and participatory feelings: reassessing Kant on sympathy and honor Rudolf A. Makkreel; 6. Kant's distinction between true and false sublimity Robert R. Clewis; 7. Kant's 'curious catalogue of human frailties' and the great portrait of nature Alix Cohen; Part III. Education, Politics and National Character: 8. Relative goodness and ambivalence of human traits: reflections in light of Kant's pedagogical concerns G. Felicitas Munzel; 9. Kant as rebel against the social order Reinhard Brandt; 10. National character via the beautiful and sublime? Robert B. Louden; Part IV. Science and History: 11. Absent an even finer feeling: a commentary on the opening of Observations on the Feeling of the Sublime and the Beautiful Peter Fenves; 12. The pursuit of science as decadence in Kant's Remarks in 'Observations on the Feelings of the Beautiful and the Sublime' John H. Zammito; 13. Kant, human nature, and history after Rousseau Karl Ameriks.