Book Criticism: A Critical Study on Kant's Practical Philosophy from Critique to Doctrine

Anbarsouz, Mohammad; Nozohour, Yousef

doi:10.30465/crtls.2019.3956

Book Criticism: A Critical Study on Kant's Practical Philosophy from Critique to Doctrine

Document Type : Research

Authors

mohammad Anbarsouz ¹

Yousef nozohour ²

¹ Ph. D. Student in Philosophy, University of Tabriz; Corresponding Author

² Associate Prof, Philosophy Department, Allameh Tabataba’i University

https://doi.org/10.30465/crtls.2019.3956

Abstract

This paper is going to criticize the book: Kant's Practical Philosophy from Critique to Doctrine written by Gray Banham by using a descriptive-analytic method based on writer's interpretation of this work, and it aims to indicate that although this book is a new reading of Kant's practical philosophy, it has some significant problems by itself. Some of these problems include the unclearness of the text, the selectivity of the discussions, the lack of conclusion at the end of each chapter, the excessive compression and the extension of the discussed subjects. Moreover, the author of this article will introduce the structure of the Kant's Practical Philosophy from Critique to Doctrine and explain its advantages, the most important of which include the special attention of Banham to the relation between Kant's different works and the philosophical process of Kant’s thought in the practical philosophy (from critical works to doctrinal works), and investigate those works of Kant which were less considered (specially by Iranian Kant scholars), and consider the opposition of Banham with the accepted viewpoint of most interpreters of Kant’s practical Philosophy (formalistic interpretation) and his formulating a new interpretation of it (teleological interpretation).

Keywords

Practical Philosophy

Ethics

Religion

Critique

Doctrine

Subjects

Philosophy

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