Socrates Meets Kant - The Father of Philosophy Meets His Most Influential Modern Child

Peter Kreeft

Socrates Meets Kant - The Father of Philosophy Meets His Most Influential Modern Child
Format
Paperback
Publisher
St Augustine's Press
Country
United States
Published
21 January 2019
Pages
326
ISBN
9781587318344

Socrates Meets Kant - The Father of Philosophy Meets His Most Influential Modern Child

Peter Kreeft

Immanuel Kant is one of the greatest philosophers in history. As Peter Kreeft here notes, Kant is really two philosophers - a philosopher concerned with how we know things (epistemology) and a philosopher of right and wrong (ethics). If he had written only on either topic, he would still be the most important and influential of the modern philosophers. The combination of the two, though, makes for a formidable thinker, one it would take a figure such as Socrates to confront.

Kreeft’s Socrates reflects what the historical philosopher would likely have made of Kant’s ideas, while also recognizing the greatness, genius, and insightfulness of Kant. The result is a helpful, highly readable, even amusing book. Kant’s philosopher of knowing truly is a Copernican revolution in philosophy, as he himself dubbed it. His ethics intended to set out the rational grounds for morality. Did he achieve his goals? What would Socrates say about the matter?

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