Kant, Roger Scruton
Kant, Roger Scruton
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Kant
A Very Short Introduction

Author: Roger Scruton

Narrator: Roger Scruton

Unabridged: 5 hr 17 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 05/25/2021


Synopsis

Kant is arguably the most influential modern philosopher, but also one of the most difficult. Roger Scruton tackles his exceptionally complex subject with a strong hand, exploring the background to Kant's work and showing why the Critique of Pure Reason has proved so enduring.

About Roger Scruton

Roger Scruton is widely seen as one of the greatest conservative thinkers of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. A polymath who wrote a wide array of fiction, nonfiction, and reviews, he was also the author of over fifty books.

A graduate of Jesus College, Cambridge, Scruton was professor of aesthetics at Birkbeck College, London; university professor at Boston University, and a visiting professor at Oxford University. He was one of the founders of the Salisbury Review, contributed regularly to the Spectator, the Times, and the Daily Telegraph and was for many years wine critic of the New Statesman. Sir Roger Scruton died in January 2020.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Ian

In Training for the Twin Towers of Philosophy This is step four in a personal project in which I had hoped to learn about Kant’s philosophy, without necessarily reading the original works, at least to start with. My original goal was to help understand the issues that the inverted, but towering, twins......more

كانت نقطه ى عطف تاريخ فلسفه بود: در دوره ى اوج تقابل سخت عقل گرايى و تجربه گرايى و به بن بست رسيدن هر دو نظرگاه، وقتى عقل گرايان از فرط غرق شدن در عوالم عقلى به ياوه گويى افتاده بودند و تجربه گرايان از شدت نفى معرفت غيرحسى به ورطه ى شكاكيت فرو رفته بودند، كانت همچون سنتزى ظهور كرد و درد هر يك از دو......more

از کانت خواندن کانت، تجربه‌ی بی‌نظیری است. فلاسفه‌ی دیگر را که می‌خوانم، دوست دارم سریع‌تر تمام شوند و به معاصرترها برسم، ولی کانت به نظر می‌رسد کسی است که می‌توان تا همیشه از او خواند. دلیل عقلانیتی است که در او به کمال رسیده. عقلانیتی که هم‌زمان آگاه به حدود و توان خود است. متواضع است. وقتی فلسفه م......more