Kant Today (eBook)

A Survey

Erich Przywara (Autor)

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2025
Word on Fire (Verlag)
978-1-68578-284-9 (ISBN)

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In Kant Today: A Survey, Erich Przywara explores the enduring impact of the tensions inherent in Immanuel Kant's thought on continental philosophy over nearly a century and a half. Drawing parallels to the efforts at synthesis of Thomas Aquinas, Przywara presents Kant as a thinker striving to reconcile disparate currents of contemporary thought. While Aquinas fused neo-Platonic Augustinian philosophy with the neo-Aristotelianism of the Parisian Arts Faculty, Kant sought to harmonize continental idealism with the skepticism and empiricism exemplified by a British thinker like David Hume. Aquinas's synthesis maintained coherence due to his reliance on the analogia entis. In contrast, Kant's synthesis lacked such a unifying principle, leading to the proliferation of philosophical antitheses reverberating throughout nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century Europe. Kant Today chronicles the aftermath of Kant's tumultuous synthesis and suggests that the resolution may lie in a thinker capable of uniting Augustine's fervent pursuit of God with Aquinas's distinctive epistemological equilibriumnamely, John Henry Newman.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 28.4.2025
• Sprache: englisch
• ISBN-10: 1-68578-284-1 / 1685782841
• ISBN-13: 978-1-68578-284-9 / 9781685782849