title: Kant and the Experience of Freedom: Essays on Aesthetics and Morality
author: Professor Paul Guyer
description: ..."a major contribution to Kant scholarship which should be considered required reading by anyone with a serious interest in either Kant's aesthetic or moral theories." Kurt Baldner, Canadian Philosophical Review<br /><br />'The overall theme of this superb collection (ten of Guyer's papers, half of them previously unpublished) concerns the complex of relations among Kant's views of art and aesthetic experience, the interests of morality and society in the latter, and more generally the connection between morality and human sensibility ... a major contribution to a study of both the ethics and the aesthetics.' Richard E. Aquila, The University of Tennessee
zlib_text: Kant
  In this fully revised and updated edition of his outstanding introduc-
  tion to Kant, Paul Guyer uses Kant’s central conception of autonomy
  as the key to all the major aspects and issues in Kant’s thought.
  Beginning with a helpful overview of Kant’s life and times, Guyer
  introduces Kant’s metaphysics and epistemology, carefully explain-
  ing his arguments about the nature of space, time and experience in
  his most influential but difficult work, The Critique of Pure Reason. He
  offers an explanation and critique of Kant’s famous theory of
  transcendental idealism and shows how much of Kant’s philosophy
  is independent of this controversial doctrine.
  He then examines Kant’s moral philosophy, his celebrated
  “categorical imperative” and his theories of duty, freedom of will
  and political rights. Finally, he covers Kant’s aesthetics, in particular
  his arguments about the nature of beauty and the sublime, and their
  relation to human freedom and happiness. He also considers Kant’s
  view that t