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Anthropology

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Immanuel Kant gave a series of lectures on anthropology 1772-1773, 1795-1796 at the University of Königsberg, which was founded in 1544. His lectures dealt with recognizing the internal and external in man, cognition, sensuousness, the five senses, as well as the soul and the mind. They were gathered together and published in 1798 and then published in English in The Journal of Speculative Philosophy in 1867, volumes 9-16. Therefore, several texts will be used for this book. I was able to find sections 1-37 and then section 43, and sections 47-57. It seems that sections 38-42, 44-46 are not available. This is book one of his longer works.

My favorite quotes

If someone has purposely caused a disaster, and it is questionable whether he is at all, or in what degree he is to be, blamed for it, and whether or not he was insane at the time of the commission of the deed, the court should not refer him to the medical facility – the court itself being incompetent to decide upon such a case – but to the philosophical faculty. On this ground the question whether the accused was in the possession of all the faculties of his understanding and judgment, is altogether of a psychological nature….

Helmont says, that, after having taken a certain dose of “napell” – a poisonous root, he felt as if he thought in his stomach. Many people have experimented with opium to such an extent that they finally felt their minds weaken when they neglected to use this stimulant of their brain.

(Summary by Craig Campbell)

Links to texts:
Sections 1-2
Sections 3-4
Sections 5-7
Section 8
Sections 9-10
Sections 11-13
Sections 14-15
Sections 16-19
Section 20
Sections 21-22
Sections 23-26 (5 hr 2 min)

Chapters

Concerning self consciousness and egoism

12:25

Read by Larry Wilson

Concerning voluntary consciousness, self-observation, and representation

18:25

Read by Larry Wilson

Concerning the perspicuity and obscurity in the consciousness of our representa…

8:50

Read by Craig Campbell

Concerning sensuousness as opposed to the understanding

8:56

Read by Craig Campbell

Apology for sensuousness and sensuous justified

10:16

Read by Craig Campbell

Concerning our power of doing in regard to the faculty of cognition in general

7:58

Read by VivianWeaver

Concerning artificial play and moral semblance

12:32

Read by Craig Campbell

Concerning the five senses

10:08

Read by sgrace

Concerning the faculty of cognition and the internal sense

14:45

Read by VivianWeaver

Concerning the causes of the decrease or increase of our sensuous perceptions i…

8:28

Read by sgrace

Concerning the stoppage, weakening, and total loss of our sensuous faculty

5:55

Read by VivianWeaver

Concerning imagination

7:24

Read by Anna Simon

Concerning certain bodily means of exciting or soothing the power of imagination

18:16

Read by Craig Campbell

Concerning the sensuous power of productive imagination according to its differ…

18:34

Read by Craig Campbell

Concerning the means of arousing and tempering the play of the power of imagina…

5:28

Read by Amy Gramour

Concerning the faculty of the power of imagination to represent the past and ma…

9:51

Read by Craig Campbell

Concerning the faculty of prevision and the gift of prophecy

11:32

Read by Craig Campbell

Concerning involuntary imaginations in a healthy condition, or dreams

3:36

Read by Amy Gramour

Concerning the designatory faculty and signs

17:38

Read by Craig Campbell

Concerning the Weaknesses and Diseases of the Soul in regard to its Faculty of …

17:09

Read by Craig Campbell

Mental Diverrsion (distractio)

11:26

Read by Craig Campbell

Dull (hebes)

6:07

Read by Craig Campbell

Concerning the diseases of the mind and delirious raving

17:26

Read by Craig Campbell

Desultory remarks

9:34

Read by Craig Campbell

Concerning talent, wit, and the specific distinction between comparing and argu…

12:42

Read by Craig Campbell

Concerning sagacity and genius

17:35

Read by Anna Simon