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The Form of Practical Knowledge
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 284

The Form of Practical Knowledge

By developing an account of practical knowledge that situates Kant's ethics within his broader epistemology and rethinks numerous topics in his moral psychology and in his account of practical reason, this book promises to deepen and to reshape our understanding of Kantian ethics.

Aristotle, Kant, and the Stoics
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 328

Aristotle, Kant, and the Stoics

This major collection of essays offers the first serious challenge to the traditional view that ancient and modern ethics are fundamentally opposed. In doing so it has important implications for contemporary ethical thought, as well as providing a significant reassessment of the work of Aristotle, Kant and the Stoics. The contributors include internationally recognised interpreters of ancient and modern ethics.

Constructivism in Ethics
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 271

Constructivism in Ethics

Ten specially written essays define the term 'constructivism' and ask crucial questions about the foundation of morality.

Kant's 'Critique of Practical Reason'
  • Language: en

Kant's 'Critique of Practical Reason'

The Critique of Practical Reason is the second of Kant's three Critiques, and his second work in moral theory after the Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals. Its systematic account of the authority of moral principles grounded in human autonomy unfolds Kant's considered views on morality and provides the keystone to his philosophical system. The essays in this volume shed light on the principal arguments of the second Critique and explore their relation to Kant's critical philosophy as a whole. They examine the genesis of the Critique, Kant's approach to the authority of the moral law given as a 'fact of reason', the metaphysics of free agency, the account of respect for morality as the moral motive, and questions raised by the 'primacy of practical reason' and the idea of the 'postulates'. Engaging and critical, this volume will be invaluable to advanced students and scholars of Kant and to moral theorists alike.

Kant's Will at the Crossroads
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 187

Kant's Will at the Crossroads

What happens when human beings fail to do as reason bids? This book is an attempt to address this age-old question within Kant's mature practical philosophy, i.e. the practical philosophy that emerged with the watershed discovery of autonomy in the mid-1780s. As always, Kant is good for a surprise. There is, it is argued, not one answer but two: He advocates Socratic intellectualism in the realm of prudence whilst defending an anti-intellectualist or volitional account of immoral action. This 'hybrid' theory of practical failure is more than a philosophical curiosity. There are ramifications for Kant's theory of practical reason as a whole. In particular, the hybrid account emphasizes the di...

The Value of Humanity
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 176

The Value of Humanity

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2020
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  • Publisher: Unknown

L. Nandi Theunissen offers an original and provocative account of the value of humanity. Human beings have value just as anything of value has value: because we are capable of being of value to someone--in the first place, to ourselves. And this explains the key forms of ethical responsiveness that we owe to one another.

Idealism and Freedom
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 244

Idealism and Freedom

This volume collects all Henry Allison's recent essays on Kant's theoretical and practical philosophy.

The Constitution of Agency
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 357

The Constitution of Agency

Christine M. Korsgaard is one of today's leading moral philosophers: this volume collects ten influential papers by her on practical reason and moral psychology. Korsgaard draws on the work of important figures in the history of philosophy such as Plato, Aristotle, Kant, and Hume, showing how their ideas can inform the solution of contemporary and traditional philosophical problems, such as the foundations of morality and practical reason, the nature of agency, and the role of the emotions in action. In Part 1, The Principles of Practical Reason, Korsgaard defends the view that the principles of practical reason are constitutive principles of action. By governing our actions in accordance wi...

Moral Self-Regard
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 263

Moral Self-Regard

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2013-09-13
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  • Publisher: Routledge

Moral Self-Regard draws on the work of Marcia Baron, Joseph Butler and Allen Wood, among others in this first extensive study of the nature, foundation and significance of duties to oneself in Kant's moral theory.

Kant's Lectures on Ethics
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 311

Kant's Lectures on Ethics

Featuring fifteen new essays, this book is the only volume devoted to a scholarly study of Kant's lectures on ethics.