Kant

Kant

A Beginner's Guide to the Core Ideas and Modern Relevance of Immanuel Kant, Including the Categorical Imperative, Deontology, and the Nature of Human KnowledgeBy Alex Omberg
Michael Caine
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Length2h 22m

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This beginner's guide demystifies the revolutionary ideas of Immanuel Kant, the quiet professor who reshaped Western thought. It unpacks his "Copernican Revolution" in philosophy, explaining how the human mind actively structures our experience of reality. The book then provides a clear and accessible breakdown of his profound ethical system, deontology, focusing on the famous Categorical Imperative and its demand to treat all people as ends in themselves—a principle that forms the bedrock of modern human rights. By tackling Kant's most challenging concepts on knowledge, freedom, and morality, this guide offers an essential foundation for understanding the architect of modern philosophy.

Audiobook details

Rating★★★★★ 5.0 (1)
GenrePhilosophy, Biography and Memoir
Length2 hrs 22 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateAug 26, 2025
LanguageEnglish

Table of contents

1Title Page
2Preface
3Chapter 1: Kant's Quiet Revolution
4Chapter 2: How Hume Roused Kant from His Dogmatic Slumber
5Chapter 3: How the Mind Shapes Experience
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6Chapter 4: Space, Time, and the Architecture of Experience
7Chapter 5: Morality's Supreme Law
8Chapter 6: The Humanity Formula
9Chapter 7: Good Will and Moral Worth
10Chapter 8: Freedom and Determinism
11Chapter 9: The Limits of Reason
12Chapter 10: God, Freedom, and Immortality
13Chapter 11: Beauty and the Sublime: Aesthetic Judgment Without Concepts
14Chapter 12: Kant and Modern Science
15Chapter 13: Deontology in the Real World
16Chapter 14: Kant's Vision of Moral Community
17Chapter 15: Reading Kant
18The Architecture of Human Reason

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