Cambridge Kant Reading Group

Chapter 5: Kantian Commitments

Chapter 9: Other to Self – Finding Love on the Path to Moral Agency

Chapter 10: Religion and the Highest Good – Speaking to the Heart of Even the Best of Us

First Section  [207 – 210]

Third Section [228 – 243]

Fourth Section [243 – 62]

Preface [2:65-2:69]

Section 1 – Third & Fourth Reflection [2:81-2:92]

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Section 2 – First & Second Reflection [2: 93-2:103]

Section 2 – Third & Fourth Reflection [2:103-2:116]

Section 2 – Fifth & Sixth Reflection [2: 116-2:137]

Section 2 – Seventh & Eight Reflection [2:137-2:154]

Preface to the First Edition [6:3 – 6:11] + Part One, Sections I and II  [6: 19-6:32]

Part One, Section III and IV + General Remark [6:32 – 6:53]

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Part Two – Section I [6:57-78]

Part Two –Section II + General Remark [6:78-6:89]

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Part Three - Section I, Subsections 5-7 and Section II  [6:103-137]

Kant. On the Supposed Right to Lie from Philanthropy Timmermann. Kant and the Supposed Right to Lie. Preface and Introduction §2

1st and 2nd Moment (§§ 1-9; 5:201-219)

3rd and 4th Moment (§§ 10-22; 5:219-244)

Analytic of the Sublime (§§ 23-29; 5:244-266)

General Remark (5:266-278)

Deduction (§§ 30-40; 5:279-296)

Deduction (§§ 41-49; 5:296-319)

Deduction (§§ 50-54; 5:319-337)

Dialectic (§§ 55-60; 5:337-356)

Analytic (§§ 61-64; 5:357-372)

Analytic (§§ 65-68; 5:372-384)

Dialectic (§§ 69-75; 5:385-401)

Dialectic (§§ 76-78; 5:401-415)

Doctrine of Method (§§ 79-83; 5:416-434)

Doctrine of Method (§§ 84-86; 5:434-447)

Doctrine of Method (§§ 87-90; 5:447-466)

Doctrine of Method (§ 91; 5:467-486)

Section 1: The Ideal in General

(A567-571/B595-B599)

Section 2: The Transcendental Ideal

(A571-583/B599-611)

Section 3: On the Grounds of Proof

(A583-591/B611-619)

Section 4: The Ontological Proof

(A592-602/B620-630)

Section 5: The Cosmological Proof

(A603-620/B631-648)

Section 6: The Physico-Theological Proof

(A620-630/B648-658)

Section 7: Critique of all Theology

(A631-642/B659-670)

Buffer/Speaker

Book One of the Dialectic (A293-309/B349-B366)

First Part of the Appendix (A642-668/B670-696)

Second Part of the Appendix (A669-704/B697-732)

Intermezzo: Talk by Samantha Matherne (Harvard)

Introduction to the third Critique (5:171-197)

Leibniz, tbd

Leibniz, tbd

Kant, The only possible argument for the
existence of God(1763), Section 2, First to Third Reflections (2:93-108)

Board Room, Philosophy Faculty

The only possible argument, Section 2, Fourth
and Fifth Reflections (2:108-23)

Board Room, Philosophy Faculty

The only possible argument, Section 2, Sixth Reflection (2:123-37)

Board Room, Philosophy Faculty

Phemister & Strickland (2015) ‘Leibniz's Monadological Positive Aesthetics’, BJHP, 23:6, 1214-1234 Three short pieces by Leibniz:
Happiness; The elements of true piety, or,
on the love of God over everything (1677/78?), and On the continuous increase in the perfection of the world

Board Room, Philosophy Faculty

Leibniz, Discourse on Metaphysics sections 5-9, 12-16, 23-29, 32-35

Maletin Room, Hughes Hall

Paper by Julia Borcherding, ‘“Every Feeling is the Perception of a Truth”: Leibniz on Moral Instincts’

Board Room, Philosophy Faculty

Kant, Third Critique, ss. 42, 84-6 and Intro IX. Background: ss. 1-5, 9-11, 61, 82-3.

Maletin Room, Hughes Hall

Guest Talk: Justin Shaddock (Williams College),
"Kant on Receptivity, Spontaneity, and the Limits
of Cognition"

Room E4, Gibbs Building, King’s

Organisers: Senthuran Bhuvanendra and Julia Borcherding. For further details or to be added to the mailing list, please contact Senthuran (sb2276).

Arendt, The Human Condition, ch.1, s.1 (“Vita activa and the human condition”)

Arendt, Some Questions of Moral Philosophy, Second Lecture

Organisers: Senthuran Bhuvanendra and Chenghui Ma

Dreams of a Spirit-Seer Elucidated by Dreams of Metaphysics, Preamble and First Chapter (2:317-28)

Organiser: Senthuran Bhuvanendra

Theorie und Praxis (“On the common saying: That may be correct in theory, but it is of no use in practice”), First Section

Nick Stang, “Is Kant’s Critique of Metaphysics Obsolete?”

Organiser: Rachel Robertson

Registration and welcome

Anastasia Berg
(pre-circulated paper)

Kant’s Feeling of Moral Respect as Practical Self-Consciousness

Rae Langton
(pre-circulated paper)

'Real Grounds’ in Matter and Things in Themselves

Lunch

Rachel Robertson
(pre-circulated paper)

The embodied human being in Kant’s Metaphysical Foundations of Natural Science

Robert Watt

Benjamin Marschall
(pre-circulated paper)

This workshop is supported by the DAAD Cambridge Research Hub with funds from the German Federal Foreign Office

Chapter 2 (‘Is Existence a Real Predicate?’) of Nicholas Stang’s Kant’s Modal Metaphysics (2016)

Organiser: Rachel Robertson

Preface

Monday 23 October

First Chapter – Phoronomy (Proposition until end) & Second Chapter – Dynamics (up to but not including Proposition 3)

Monday 30 October

Fourth Chapter – Phenomenology

Convenors: Samuel Hughes, Rachel Robertson and Angela Breitenbach