Freedom and the End of Reason On the Moral Foundation of Kant`s Critical Philosophy

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The Problem of the End of Reason in Kant`s Philosophy The Primacy of the Practical End of Reason Rousseau`s Insight The Highest Good and the End of Reason A Prospectus of the Argument the revolution in the end of reason: some principal themes The Revision of Modern Foundations The Critique of Instrumental Reason The Crisis in the Relation of Metaphysics to Common Reason Rousseau`s Protest against Modern Enlightenment Kantian Philosophy as Transcendental Practice the teleological problem in modern individualism Individualism and Moral Sense Rousseau`s Challenge to Moral Sense The Teleological Problem in Rousseau kant`s discovery of a solution, 1764-65 History, Nature, and Perfection Will, Reason, and Spontaneity The Analysis of Passion: Honor and Benevolence Justice and Equality Common Reason and the End of Science the origins of modern moral idealism, 1765-80 89 The Unity of Freedom and Nature as Ideal Goal 89 The Failures of Ancient Moral Idealism 95 Morality as System 103 Socratic Metaphysics as Science of the End and the Limit of Reason 111 The Dialectic of the Pure Concepts of the Whole 116 culture and the practical interpretation of the end of reason, 1781-1800 136 The Ultimate End of Theoretical Inquiry 136 Philosophy`s "Idea" and Its History 145 Culture`s Contradictions and Their Ideal Resolution 152