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With particular focus on imagination, Bernard Freydberg presents a close reading of Kant's second critique, The Critique of Practical Reason. In an interpretation that is daring as well as rigorous, Freydberg reveals imagination as both its central force and the bridge that links Kant's three critiques. Freydberg's reading offers a powerful challenge to the widespread view that Kant's ethics calls for rigid, self-denying obedience. Here, to the contrary, the search for self-fulfillment becomes an enormously creative endeavor once imagination is understood as the heart of Kantian ethics. Seasoned scholars and newer students will find a surprising and provocative view of Kant's ethics in this straightforward and accessible book.

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  1. Cover
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  1. Contents
  2. pp. vii-ix
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  1. Acknowledgments
  2. pp. xi-xii
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  1. Note on the Text and on Page References
  2. p. xiii
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  1. Prologue: From the Critique of Pure Reason to the Critique of Practical Reason
  2. pp. 1-17
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  1. Introduction: Weapons of War: Preliminary Reactions on the Practical in the Critique of Pure Reason
  2. pp. 18-45
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  1. Part 1. Analytic of Pure Practical Reason
  2. p. 47
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  1. One: Principles of Pure Practical Reason: Imagination and Moral “Derivation”
  2. pp. 49-78
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  1. Two: The Concept of an Object of Pure Practical Reason: Imagination, Good and Evil, and the Typic
  2. pp. 79-83
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  1. Three: The Incentives (Triebfeder) of Pure Practical Reason: Incentive Creating Imagination and Moral Feeling
  2. pp. 84-91
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  1. Part 2. Dialectic and Methodology of Pure Practical Reason
  2. p. 93
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  1. Four: Dialectic of Pure Practical Reason in General and Imagination
  2. pp. 95-105
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  1. Five: Imagination and the Postulates of Immortality and God
  2. pp. 106-112
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  1. Six: Imagination and the Moral Extension of Reason
  2. pp. 113-117
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  1. Seven: Methodology of Pure Practical Reason: Images and Ecstasy
  2. pp. 118-123
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  1. Conclusion(s)
  2. pp. 124-130
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  1. Epilogue: From the Critique of Practical Reason to the Critique of Judgment
  2. pp. 131-146
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  1. Notes
  2. pp. 147-170
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  1. Bibliography
  2. pp. 171-174
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  1. Index of Subjects
  2. pp. 175-178
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  1. Index of Persons
  2. pp. 179-180
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