Anthropology: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Anthropology, credited to Immanuel Kant, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

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LibriVox recording of Anthropology by Immanuel Kant (translated by Adolph Ernst Kroeger.) Read in English by Larry Wilson; Craig Campbell; VivianWeaver; sgrace; Anna Simon; Amy Gramour 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

Recording facts

• Recording title: Anthropology
• Author credits: Immanuel Kant
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 26
• Listed recording duration: 5:02:56

Catalogue topics

• philosophy
• religion
• anthropology
• sensuality
• thinking

Opening tracks: first 24 of 26

1. 01 - Concerning self consciousness and egoism — 12:25
2. 02 - Concerning voluntary consciousness, self-observation, and representation — 18:25
3. 03 - Concerning the perspicuity and obscurity in the consciousness of our representations — 8:50
4. 04 - Concerning sensuousness as opposed to the understanding — 8:56
5. 05 - Apology for sensuousness and sensuous justified — 10:16
6. 06 - Concerning our power of doing in regard to the faculty of cognition in general — 7:58
7. 07 - Concerning artificial play and moral semblance — 12:32
8. 08 - Concerning the five senses — 10:08
9. 09 - Concerning the faculty of cognition and the internal sense — 14:45
10. 10 - Concerning the causes of the decrease or increase of our sensuous perceptions in degree — 8:28
11. 11 - Concerning the stoppage, weakening, and total loss of our sensuous faculty — 5:55
12. 12 - Concerning imagination — 7:24
13. 13 - Concerning certain bodily means of exciting or soothing the power of imagination — 18:16
14. 14 - Concerning the sensuous power of productive imagination according to its different kinds — 18:34
15. 15 - Concerning the means of arousing and tempering the play of the power of imagination — 5:28
16. 16 - Concerning the faculty of the power of imagination to represent the past and make present the future — 9:51
17. 17 - Concerning the faculty of prevision and the gift of prophecy — 11:32
18. 18 - Concerning involuntary imaginations in a healthy condition, or dreams — 3:36
19. 19 - Concerning the designatory faculty and signs — 17:38
20. 20 - Concerning the Weaknesses and Diseases of the Soul in regard to its Faculty of Cognition — 17:09
21. 21 - Mental Diverrsion (distractio) — 11:26
22. 22 - Dull (hebes) — 6:07
23. 23 - Concerning the diseases of the mind and delirious raving — 17:26
24. 24 - Desultory remarks — 9:34

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