Kant's Philosophy

Pre-requisites: Knowledge of German or English is desirable, not necessary.

Course objectives: Students will get acquainted with pre-critical and critical philosophy of Kant. The course is designed for students who wish to improve knowledge of Kant's thought acquired during the mandatory course History of philosophy IIIa.

Course description: The course provides an overview Kant's pre-critical and critical philosophy, with special attention paid to Kant's texts that were not included in the literature of the course History of philosophy IIIa. The course begins with an analysis of Kant's early cosmology, cosmogony, theology and animism, then the course focuses on their ontological, epistemological and psychological assumptions. After that, the course deals with transitional steps that took Kant to critical philosophy and the character of this turn is considered as well. In the third part, Kant's positive doctrines from critical period are presented: his epistemology, philosophy of physics, freedom, religion, law and history. In the last part, Kant's critical teachings are analyzed – his critique of metaphysics, church, hereditary aristocracy and German culture of his time.

Learning Outcomes: At the end of the course, students will be able to read Kant's texts and to deal with all important concepts, attitudes and arguments of his philosophy.

Literature/Reading:

• Imanuel Kant, Opšta povest prirode i teorija neba, Svetlost, Sarajevo 1989.
• Imanuel Kant, „Fizička monadologija“, ARHE 1/2004, str. 235-250, Novi Sad 2004.
• Imanuel Kant, Kritika čistog uma, Predgovori; Uvod; Transcendentalna dijalektika, Uvod Prva knjiga; Treća antinomija, BIGZ, Beograd 1976.
• Imanuel Kant, Kritika praktičnog uma, Drugo poglavlje druge knjige o poglavlje druge knjige prvog dela - "O dijalektici čistog uma u odredjivanju pojma o najvišem dobru", BIGZ, Beograd 1990, str. 130-165.
• Imanuel Kant, Kritika moći suđenja, 2. deo – Kritika teleološke moći suđenja, §80-85.
• Imanuel Kant, Metafizički početni razlozi prirodne nauke, Veselin Masleša, Sarajevo 1990.
• Imanuel Kant, Metafizika morala, Prvi deo – Filozofija prava, Izdavačka knjižarnica Zorana Stojanovića, Sremski Karlovci - Novi Sad i IPP „Pobjeda-Promet“, Podgorica 1993, str. 13-156.
• Imanuel Kant, Religija unutar granica čistog uma, 3. i 4. deo, BIGZ, Beograd 1990.
• „Večni mir. Filozofski nacrt“, u I. Kant, Um i sloboda, Ideje, Beograd 1974, str. 27-40, ili neko kasnije izdanje.
• Imanuel Kant, „Ideja opšte istorije usmerene ka ostvarenju svetskog građanskog poretka“, u I. Kant, Um i sloboda, Ideje, Beograd 1974,str. 27-40.
• Imanuel Kant, „Odgovor na pitanje: šta je prosvećenost?“, u I. Kant, Um i sloboda, Ideje, Beograd 1974, str. 41-48.
• Imanuel Kant, Antropologija u pragmatičnom pogledu, Breza, Zagreb 2003.
• Ivan Vuković, Oponašanje Boga. Intimna istorija Kantove filozofije, Izdavačka knjižarnica Zorana Stojanovića, Sremski Karlovci 2006.
• Immanuel Kant, Gesammelte Schriften, Preussischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Berlin und Leipyig: de Gruyter, 1902—1956, dostupno na adresi www.korpora.org/kant/
• Immanuel Kant, Werke, hrsg. von Wilhelm Weischedel, Surkamph, Frankfurt am Main, Erste Auflage 1977, dostupno u odeljenskoj biblioteci.
• Lewis White Beck (ed.), Kant’s Latin Writings, Peter Lang, New York 1986.
• Dawid Walford and Ralf Meerbote (eds.), Immanuel Kant: Theorethical philosophy, 1755—1770, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge – New York, 2003, kao i druga izdanja Kantovih tekstova od istog izdavača.
• Henry Allison, Kant's Transcendental Idealism, Yale University Press, New Haven and London 1983.
• Otfried Höffe, Kants Kritik der reinen Vernunft, Die grundelgung der modernen Philosophie, C.H.Beck, München 2003.
• Pierre Kerszberg, Kant et la nature, l’Âne d’or, Paris 1999.
• Martin Schönfeld, The Philosophy of the Young Kant, The Precritical Project, Oxford UP, New York 2000.
• Howard Caygill, A Kant Dictionary, Blackwell, Cambridge Mass. 1995.
• Rudolph Eisler, Kant Lexikon, Georg Olms Verlag, Hildesheim-Zürich-New York 2002.
• Paul Guyer (prir.), The Cambridge Companion to Kant, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 1992.