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The terms "freedom” and "person” carry such overwhelming force in the modern world that the critical distance required for grasping what is at stake in using them is extremely hard to gain. This collection seeks to contribute toward finding that distance by making the tradition of thought more a living reality and not an object of arid analyses.

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Reconstructing the influence of Rousseau on Kant's thought, the author demonstrates that the relationship between speculative philosophy and practical philosophy in Kant is far more intimate than generally has been perceived. He offers an unusually complete account of Kant's idea of moral culture.

In "Freedom and the End of Reason, " Richard L. Velkley offers an influential interpretation of the central issue of Kant's philosophy and an evaluation of its position within modern philosophy's larger history. He persuasively argues that the whole of Kantianism--not merely the Second Critique--focuses on a "critique of practical reason" and is a response to a problem that Kant saw as intrinsic to reason itself: the teleological problem of it...

In "Being after Rousseau, " Richard L. Velkley presents Jean-Jacques Rousseau as the founder of a modern European tradition of reflection on the relation of philosophy to culture-a reflection that calls both into question. Tracing this tradition from Rousseau to Immanuel Kant, Friedrich Schelling, and Martin Heidegger, Velkley shows late modern philosophy as a series of ultimately unsuccessful attempts to resolve the dichotomies between nature...

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The terms freedom and person carry such force in world that distance required for grasping what is at stake in using them is hard to gain. This book seeks to contribute toward finding that distance by making tradition of thought a reality. It acknowledges interconnectedness of philosophical, theological, and political arguments on these themes.