Author : Mark Timmons
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 17,93 MB
Release : 2013-03-08
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0199875367
This volume of new essays provides a comprehensive and structured examination of Kant's justification of norms, a crucial but neglected theme in Kantian practical philosophy. The essays engage with the view that a successful account of justification of normative claims has to be non-metaphysical and go on to pursue further implications in ethics, legal and political philosophy, and philosophy of religion.
Author : Richard Dean
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 33,78 MB
Release : 2006-05-11
Category : History
ISBN : 0199285721
The humanity formulation of Kant's Categorical Imperative demands that we treat humanity as an end in itself. Because this principle resonates with currently influential ideals of human rights and dignity, contemporary readers often find it compelling, even if the rest of Kant's moral philosophy leaves them cold. Moreover, some prominent specialists in Kant's ethics have recently turned to the humanity formulation as the most theoretically central and promising principle of Kant'sethics. Nevertheless, it has received less attention than many other aspects of Kant's ethics. Richard Dean offers the most sustained and systematic examination of the humanity formulation to date. He presents an original analysis of what it means to treat humanity as an end in itself, and examinesthe implications both for Kant scholarship and for practical guidance on specific moral issues.
Author : Michael Cholbi
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 247 pages
File Size : 47,44 MB
Release : 2016-11-17
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1107163463
A systematic guide to Kant's ethical work and the debates surrounding it, accessible to students and specialists alike.
Author : Robert N. Johnson
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 50,22 MB
Release : 2011-10-06
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0191618969
Is there any moral obligation to improve oneself, to foster and develop various capacities in oneself? From a broadly Kantian point of view, Self-Improvement defends the view that there is such an obligation and that it is an obligation that each person owes to him or herself. The defence addresses a range of arguments philosophers have mobilized against this idea, including the argument that it is impossible to owe anything to yourself, and the view that an obligation to improve onself is overly 'moralistic'. Robert N. Johnson argues against Kantian universalization arguments for the duty of self-improvement, as well as arguments that bottom out in a supposed value humanity has. At the same time, he defends a position based on the notion that self- and other-respecting agents would, under the right circumstances, accept the principle of self-improvement and would leave it up to each to be the person to whom this duty is owed.
Author : Lara Denis
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 27,9 MB
Release : 2010-10-28
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1139492632
Immanuel Kant's Metaphysics of Morals (1797), containing the Doctrine of Right and Doctrine of Virtue, is his final major work of practical philosophy. Its focus is not rational beings in general but human beings in particular, and it presupposes and deepens Kant's earlier accounts of morality, freedom and moral psychology. In this volume of newly-commissioned essays, a distinguished team of contributors explores the Metaphysics of Morals in relation to Kant's earlier works, as well as examining themes which emerge from the text itself. Topics include the relation between right and virtue, property, punishment, and moral feeling. Their diversity of questions, perspectives and approaches will provide new insights into the work for scholars in Kant's moral and political theory.
Author : Bruce Aune
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 231 pages
File Size : 10,97 MB
Release : 2014-07-14
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1400853176
Written for the general reader and the student of moral philosophy, this book provides a clear and unified treatment of Kant's theory of morals. Bruce Aune takes into account all of Kant's principal writings on morality and presents them in a contemporary idiom. Originally published in 1980. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
Author : Ermanno Bencivenga
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 12,21 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0195307356
This is a short monograph on Kant, specifically his ideas about freedom and morality, but with important relevance to questions at the heart of philosophy.
Author : Allen W. Wood
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 22,45 MB
Release : 2007-12-10
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780521671149
Allen Wood investigates Kant's conception of ethical theory, using it to develop a viable approach to the rights and moral duties of human beings. By remaining closer to Kant's own view of the aims of ethics, Wood's understanding of Kantian ethics differs from the received 'constructivist' interpretation, especially on such matters as the ground and function of ethical principles, the nature of ethical reasoning and autonomy as the ground of ethics. Wood does not hesitate to criticize and modify Kant's conclusions when they seem inconsistent with his basic principles or fail to make the best use of the resources Kantian principles make available. Of special interest are the book's treatment of such topics as freedom of the will, the state's role in securing economic justice, sexual morality, the justification of punishment, and the prohibition on lying.
Author : Immanuel Kant
Publisher :
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 14,49 MB
Release : 1949
Category : Ethics
ISBN :
Author : Roger J. Sullivan
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 436 pages
File Size : 35,86 MB
Release : 1989
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780521369084
This book, sure to become a standard reference work, is a comprehensive, lucid, and systematic commentary on Kant's practical (or moral) philosophy. Kant is arguably the most important moral philosopher of the modern period; yet, prior to this area in a single volume. Using as nontechnical a language as possible, Professor Sullivan offers a detailed, authoritative account of Kant's moral philosophy - including his ethical theory, his philosophy of history, his political philosophy, his philosophy of religion, and his philosophy of education - and demonstrates the historical, Kantian origins of such important notions as â€~autonomy', â€~respect for persons', â€~rights', and â€~duties'. An invaluable resource, this book will be extremely useful to advanced undergraduates, graduates, and professional philosophers alike.
