Kant is a key thinker in the emergence of our contemporary sense of what 'human freedom' is, and why it is important. This book shows that important features of Kant's philosophy were forged out of difficulties he had in reconciling his belief in God as creator with the concept of human freedom.

Contrary to received scholarship, Beck concludes that Kant's theory of rights, like Fichte's, contains an unsettling message for many incompletely reasoned contemporary liberal theories of rights, which rarely discuss those additional ontological, epistemological, and psychological foundations on which the defense of liberal individualistic rights ultimately rests. Fichte and Kant on Freedom, Rights, and Law is an essential book for scholars of these two philosophers."--BOOK JACKET.

This contains a clearly stated vision of the purpose of philosophy, a vision which Stallknecht maintained and deepened throughout a lifetime of reflection. The sense in which creation can be seen as one of - if not the - fundamental questions of philosophy emerges from the historical background of ancient and modern philosophy. Bergson serves as the primary focus as far as sustained analysis of creation, but other contemporaries are discussed, and there is a substantial and precise treatment of Alfred North Whitehead's philosophy of organism. It also discusses the function of creativity in the worlds of literature.

Don Carlos, Infante of Spain--Letters on Don Carlos--Theater considered as a moral institution--Over the aesthetical education of man--Poems--The Ghost seer.