Freedom and the End of Reason: On the Moral Foundation of Kant's Critical Philosophy [Paperback]

InFreedom and the End of Reason, Richard L. Velkley offers an influential interpretation of the central issue of Kants philosophy and an evaluation of its position within modern philosophys larger history. He persuasively argues that the whole of Kantianismnot merely the Second Critiquefocuses on a critique of practical reason and is a response to a problem that Kant saw as intrinsic to reason itself: the teleological problem of its goodness. Reconstructing the influence of Rousseau on Kants thought, Velkley demonstrates that the relationship between speculative philosophy and practical philosophy in Kant is far more intimate than generally has been perceived. By stressing a Rousseau-inspired notion of reason as a provider of practical ends, he is able to offer an unusually complete account of Kants idea of moral culture.

Richard L. Velkley?is the Celia Scott Weatherhead Professor of Philosophy at Tulane University. He is the author of many books, includingBeing after RousseauandHeidegger, Strauss, and the Premises of Philosophy, both also published by the University of Chicago Press.?

Preface
Acknowledgments
Abbreviations
Introduction
The Problem of the End of Reason in Kant's Philosophy
The Primacy of the Practical End of Reason
Rousseau's Insight
The Highest Good and the End of Reason
A Prospectus of the Argument
1. The Revolution in the End of Reason: Some Principal Themes
The Revision of Modern Foundations
The Critique of Instrumental Reason
The Crisis in the Relation of Metaphysics to Common Reason
Rousseau's Protest against Modern Enlightenment
Kantian Philosophy as Transcendental Practice
2. The Teleological Problem in Modern Individualism
Individualism and Moral Sense
Rousseau's Challenge to Moral Sense
The Teleological Problem in Rousseau
3. Kant's Discovery of a Solution, 1764-65
History, Nature, and Perfection
Will, Reason, lå