Book Description
Ameriks challenges the presumptions that dominate popular approaches to the concept of freedom.
Author : Karl Ameriks
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 374 pages
File Size : 50,6 MB
Release : 2000-06-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521786140
Ameriks challenges the presumptions that dominate popular approaches to the concept of freedom.
Author : Oliver Sensen
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 315 pages
File Size : 49,94 MB
Release : 2013
Category : History
ISBN : 1107004861
This book explores the central importance Kant's concept of autonomy for contemporary moral thought and modern philosophy.
Author : Stefano Bacin
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 239 pages
File Size : 30,74 MB
Release : 2019
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1107182859
A thorough study of why Kant developed the concept of autonomy, one of his central legacies for contemporary moral thought.
Author : Susan Meld Shell
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 48,68 MB
Release : 2009-08-30
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780674054608
Autonomy for Kant is not just a synonym for the capacity to choose, whether simple or deliberative. It is what the word literally implies: the imposition of a law on one's own authority and out of one's own rational resources. In Kant and the Limits of Autonomy, Shell explores the limits of Kantian autonomy--both the force of its claims and the complications to which they give rise. Through a careful examination of major and minor works, Shell argues for the importance of attending to the difficulty inherent in autonomy and to the related resistance that in Kant's view autonomy necessarily provokes in us. Such attention yields new access to Kant's famous, and famously puzzling, Groundlaying of the Metaphysics of Morals. It also provides for a richer and more unified account of Kant's later political and moral works; and it highlights the pertinence of some significant but neglected early writings, including the recently published Lectures on Anthropology. Kant and the Limits of Autonomy is both a rigorous, philosophically and historically informed study of Kantian autonomy and an extended meditation on the foundation and limits of modern liberalism.
Author : Karl Ameriks
Publisher :
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 15,44 MB
Release : 2019-11
Category :
ISBN : 019884185X
In this volume, Karl Ameriks explores "Kantian subjects" in three senses. In Part I, he first clarifies the most distinctive features-such as freedom and autonomy-of Kant's notion of what it is for us to be a subject. Other chapters then consider related "subjects" that are basic topics inother parts of Kant's philosophy, such as his notions of necessity and history. Part II examines the ways in which many of us, as "late modern," have been highly influenced by Kant's philosophy and its indirect effect on our self-conception through successive generations of post-Kantians, such asHegel and Schelling, and early Romantic writers such as Holderlin, Schlegel, and Novalis, thus making us "Kantian subjects" in a new historical sense. By defending the fundamentals of Kant's ethics in reaction to some of the latest scholarship in the opening chapters, Ameriks offers an extensiveargument that Holderlin expresses a valuable philosophical position that is much closer to Kant than has generally been recognized. He also argues that it was necessary for Kant's position to be supplemented by the new conception, introduced by the post-Kantians, of philosophy as fundamentallyhistorical, and that this conception has had a growing influence on the most interesting strands of Anglophone as well as Continental philosophy.
Author : Andrews Reath
Publisher : Oxford University Press on Demand
Page : 277 pages
File Size : 36,70 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780199288823
Reath presents a selection of his essays on various features of Kant's moral philosophy and moral theory, with particular emphasis on his conception of rational agency and autonomy. He explores Kant's belief that objective moral requrirements are based on principles we choose for ourselves.
Author : Mark White
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 283 pages
File Size : 47,53 MB
Release : 2011-05-17
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0804768943
This book integrates the moral philosophy of Immanuel Kant—particularly the concepts of autonomy, dignity, and character—into economic theory, enriching models of individual choice and policymaking, while contributing to our understanding of how the economic individual fits into society.
Author : Jerome B. Schneewind
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 652 pages
File Size : 44,95 MB
Release : 1998
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780521479387
This remarkable book is the most comprehensive study ever written of the history of moral philosophy in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Its aim is to set Kant's still influential ethics in its historical context by showing in detail what the central questions in moral philosophy were for him and how he arrived at his own distinctive ethical views. The book is organised into four main sections, each exploring moral philosophy by discussing the work of many influential philosophers of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. In an epilogue the author discusses Kant's view of his own historicity, and of the aims of moral philosophy. In its range, in its analyses of many philosophers not discussed elsewhere, and in revealing the subtle interweaving of religious and political thought with moral philosophy, this is an unprecedented account of the evolution of Kant's ethics.
Author : Jeffrey Edwards
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 46,90 MB
Release : 2017-11-07
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 311051611X
This book examines the surprising ramifications of Kant’s late account of practical reason’s obligatory ends as well as a revolutionary implication of his theory of property. It thereby sheds new light on Kant’s place in the history of modern moral philosophy.
Author : Charles Larmore
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,65 MB
Release : 2008-07-14
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780521717823
In The Autonomy of Morality, Charles Larmore challenges two ideas that have shaped the modern mind. The world, he argues, is not a realm of value-neutral fact, nor is reason our capacity to impose principles of our own devising on an alien reality. Rather, reason consists in being responsive to reasons for thought and action that arise from the world itself. In particular, Larmore shows that the moral good has an authority that speaks for itself. Only in this light does the true basis of a liberal political order come into view, as well as the role of unexpected goods in the makeup of a life lived well. Charles Larmore is W. Duncan MacMillan Family Professor in the Humanities and Professor of Philosophy at Brown University. The author of The Morals of Modernity and The Romantic Legacy, he is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. In 2004 he received the Grand Prix de Philosophie from the Académie Française for his book Les pratiques du moi.