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Reprinted in part from the author's Napoleon and Machiavelli. Cambridge, 1903. ; Politics: The man of destiny. Napoleonic memoirs. The poetic Napoleon. Napoleon's marshals. The Waterloo campaign. The politics of the Divina commedia. Machiavelli's "Prince". The Ides of March. Goethe's position in practical politics. Lynch law. Dante's political allegory.--Metaphysics: Mind and brain. Space and time. Pragmatism. ; Mode of access: Internet.

Intro -- Contents -- Introduction -- PART I. THE TRANSCENDENTAL AESTHETIC -- 1. The Consistency of Kant's Theory of Space and Time -- 2. Kant vs. Lambert and Trendelenburg on the Ideality of Time -- PART II. THE TRANSCENDENTAL DEDUCTION -- 3. Apperception and the Premise of Kant's Transcendental Deduction -- 4. Categories, Logical Functions, and Schemata in Kant -- 5. A Modified Version of Kant's Theory of Cognition -- PART III. THE PRINCIPLES -- 6. Kant's Proofs of Substance and Causation -- 7. Kant's Refutation of Idealism in the B Edition -- PART IV. THINGS IN THEMSELVES -- 8. Kant on Things in Themselves -- 9. Kant's Proof of Transcendental Idealism in the First Antinomy -- 10. Macroscopic Facts, Quantum Mechanics, and Metaphysical Realism -- PART V. FREEDOM AND MORALITY -- 11. Reason, Freedom, and Determinism in the Third Antinomy -- 12. Kant's Formulations of the Categorical Imperative -- 13. The Rational Justification of Morality -- Bibliography -- Index.

Intro -- Contents -- Editor's Preface -- A Note on the Translation -- Abbreviations -- Text: Immanuel Kant: Groundwork for the Metaphysics of Morals (1785) -- Preface -- First Section: Transition from common rational moral cognition to philosophical moral cognition -- Second Section: Transition from popular moral philosophy to the metaphysics of morals -- Third Section: Transition from the metaphysics of morals to the critique of pure practical reason -- Essays: Rethinking Groundwork for the Metaphysics of Morals -- 1. Why Study Kant's Ethics? -- 2. Acting from Duty -- 3. Kantianism for Consequentialists -- 4. What Is Kantian Ethics? -- Glossary -- Index.

Intro -- CONTENTS -- Introduction: The Development of Cassirer's Philosophy by DonaldP hillip Verene -- PART I The Early Texts: Life and Spirit -- Chapter 2 The Object of Philosophy -- Chapter 1 Life andSpir it -- PART II The Late Text: Basis Phenomena -- Chapter 3 Basis Phenomena -- Chapter 4 The Work of Philosophy -- Bibliography -- Index.

Intro -- Contents -- Foreword by Kenneth L. Schmitz -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- Part I: Self-Determining Freedom -- 1. The Encounter between Philosophy and Theology -- From Theology to Philosophy -- The Whole of Reason -- Christian Intimations of Philosophy -- 2. Anthropology Beckons -- A Theological Reading of Hegel -- Hegel's Logic Revisited -- Anthropology's Seeming Negativity -- 3. Absolute's Freedom -- Self-Disclosing Gift -- Absolute Freedom and Spirit -- The Logic of Mercy -- Part II: The Ontology of Gift -- 4. Retrieving the Spirit -- Otherness and Surprise as the Beginning of Metaphysics -- Positivistic Reduction and Promethean Presumption -- The Concept of the Spirit and Its Manifestation -- Phenomenology of Spirit -- 5. An Ontology of Gift: Finite Spirit -- Giving before Having -- Gratuitous Reciprocity -- A Perilous Existence -- 6. Altogether Gift: Absolute Spirit -- The Absolute Principle -- Absolute Gift: The Infinite, the Creator, and the Eternal -- 7. God's Unfathomable Love: The Confirmation of the Gift -- Love's Ruse: The Ultimate Positivity of Gift -- Three Persons and the One Personal God -- The Kingdom of the Father -- Trinity and Person -- Confirmation of Finite Spirit -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index.

Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Religion, Socrates, and the Platonic Socrates -- 2. Scrutinizing Character, Scrutinizing Moral Propositions -- 3. The Discovery of Separate Form -- 4. Forms and Erotic Passion -- 5. Ethics, Psychology, and Metaphysics in the Phaedo -- 6. The Republic: The Finished Theory of Forms? -- 7. Reconstructions: From Parmenides to Philebus -- 8. Gods, God, and Goodness -- 9. Ethics and Metaphysics: Then and Now -- Appendix A: Republic Book Five: Some Background to Eugenic Theory -- Appendix B: Literature and Platonic Transcendentalism -- Selected Bibliography -- Index.

Introductory.--The method of metaphysic.--The results of metaphysics.--The freedom of man.--Moral philosophy.--Political philosophy.--Green and his critics. ; Mode of access: Internet.

Photocopy. Ann Arbor, Mich., University Microfilms Microfilms International, 1977. ; Introduction, by E. D. Mead.--I. The natural principle of the political order.--II. The principles of political right.--III. The principle of progress.--IV. Eternal peace: a philosophical essay.--V. Public law, from The metaphysics of morals.--Notes to "Eternal peace". ; Mode of access: Internet.

Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- List of Abbreviations -- Part I. A Portrait of Vico -- 1. The Joycean Vico: A New Key -- 2. The Life of Vico: A Career in Naples -- Part II. Vico's Voyage -- 3. The New Art of Pedagogy: Wisdom Speaking -- 4. The Most Ancient Wisdom: Metaphysics -- 5. The Universal Law: Jurisprudence -- Part III. Vico's Science -- 6. The New Science: The Life of Nations -- Postface -- Chronology -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.

Introduction.--The Phaedo myth.--The Gorgias myth.--The myth of Er.--The Politicus myth.--The Protagorus myth.--The Timaeus.--The Phaedrus myth.--The two Symposium myths. I. The myth told by Aristophanes. II. The discourse of Diotima.--General observations on myths which set forth the nation's, as distinguished from the individual's, ideals and categories.--The Atlantis myth.--The myth of the earth-born.--Conclusion: the mythology and metaphysics of the Cambridge Platonists. ; Mode of access: Internet.

As with the previous volumes, the writings are brilliantly realized in form with serious content to match. Threading a needle between abstracted empiricism that dominates present science policy and speculative metaphysics that offers little else than a great vision of the world, this volume of Culture & Civilization on Globalism charts a space for which there is a felt need by large publics, responded to by serious social science specialists capable of addressing such interests in historically meaningful contexts