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Socrates Meets Kant: The Father of Philosophy Meets His Most Influential Modern Child is unavailable, but you can change that!

In this volume, Kreeft explains how Immanuel Kant was both a philosopher about how we know things (epistemology) and a philosopher of right and wrong (ethics). Kant’s philosophy of knowing truly was a “Copernican revolution in philosophy,” and his ethics were intended to lay a rational foundation for morality. If he had written only on either topic, he would still be among the most important and...

Kant is really two philosophers: (1) the epistemologist of The Critique of Pure Reason and (2) the ethicist of the Grounding for for the Metaphysics of Morals [sometimes translated as The Foundations of the Metaphysics of Morals or Fundamental Principles of the Metaphysic of Morals]. That’s why this book is almost twice as long as the others in the Socrates Meets series. That’s also why I have modified Socrates’ style of argument a little bit and made it more short and direct than it
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