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1 online resource (427 p.) |
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Cover -- Kant's Deontological Eudaemonism -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Cicero -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introductory Thoughts -- Introduction -- I. A History of Philosophical Blunders -- A History of Philosophical Blunders: Deontology -- A History of Philosophical Blunders: Eudaemonism -- II. Toward a Positive Conception of Kant's Deontological Eudaemonism -- Aristotelian Moments in Kant's Deontological Eudaemonism -- An Objection Considered -- Summing Up -- III. Summary of Chapters -- Part I. Deontological Teleology: The Objective Telos of Virtue -- Part II. Deontological Eudaemonism: The Subjective Telos of Virtue -- IV. A Note on Phenomenological Method -- PART I: DEONTOLOGICAL TELEOLOGY: THE OBJECTIVE TELOS OF VIRTUE -- I.i: In Search of the Objective Telos of Self-Governance -- Introduction -- I. The Contours and Limits of Naturalistic reasoning -- The Limits of Naturalistically Grounded Reasoning -- Natural Limits Applied to the Practical Realm: Incompleteness in the Pursuit of Happiness -- A Frankfurtian Objection: Good Enough Governance by Rules of Thumb? -- The Volatility of Boundless Desires -- Quantitative Failures of Governance of Desire by Desire -- Axiological Failures of Desire-Governance: The Passionate Failure of Evaluative Distance -- The Passionate Failure of the Pursuit of Happiness -- The Obfuscating Relativity of Evaluation by Passion -- The Self-Absorptionof Desire -- II. Seeking a More Satisfactory Objective Telos for Self-Governanceof Desire -- Introduction -- The Material, Objective Telos of Virtuous Self-Governance -- The Subjective Telos of Virtuous Self-Governance -- Conclusion -- I.ii: Deontological Teleology: An Objective and End-Based Approach to the Virtuous Self-Governance of Desire -- Introduction -- I. Interpretive Work on Kant, Ends, and the Formula of Humanity -- Teleology in Kant Interpretation |
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How to Construe the Value at the Heart of Kant's Teleology? -- The Reciprocity of Deontology and Teleology -- Interpretations of the Formula of Humanity -- II. Kant's Early Thoughts on Ends -- Relative, Subjective, and Unfree Ends in the Groundwork and second Critique -- Virtue's Need for Ends -- III. The Freedom of End-Setting -- Introduction: The Basics of Ends in the Doctrine of Virtue -- A. Pragmatic Ends -- Pragmatic versus Moral (Obligatory) Ends -- The Free Incorporation of Ends -- "The Dutiful Maxim Test" for Pragmatic Ends -- Conclusion and Caveat -- B. Moral or Obligatory Ends -- Introduction -- Obligatory Ends -- Conclusion -- Deontological Teleology Affirmed -- I.iii: The Proper Objective Telos of Deontological Teleology: Making Persons as Such One's End -- Introduction -- I. Preliminary Thoughts on the Deduction of Respect for Persons as the Material, Objective Telos of Virtue -- Introduction -- A Note on Practical Deductions -- Materialized Imperatives: The Birth of Deontological Teleology -- Perplexities about a Materialized Version of a Formal Formulation -- II. The Deduction of Respect for Persons as the Material, Objective Telos of Virtue -- Introduction: What is Being Deduced Here? -- Revisiting the Groundwork -- The Second Formulation in the Groundwork -- Backing Away from Positive Commands of Virtue -- Deduction of a Materialized Version of the Second Formulation -- Which is Prior: The Deontological Principle or the Teleological Purpose? -- Concluding Thoughts -- A New Prominence for the Second Formulation in Grounding Duties of Virtue -- I.iv: A Deontological Deduction of the Obligatory Ends of Virtue -- Introduction: The Establishment of an End as a Telos via Desire-Governanceand End-Setting -- I. Desire-Governancevia a Moral-Feeling-Expressed Experience of Conscience |
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Desire-Governancevia a Moral-Feeling-Expressed Experience of Conscience -- Is Respect for Persons Any Better thanSelf-Elevated Ruling Desires? -- A Footnote on Vice -- II. A Dedication of Obligatory Ends -- Introductory Thoughts on Deducing Obligatory Ends -- Duties of Love, Not Just of Respect -- A. Duties to Others: Beneficence -- The Relationship of the First and Second Formulations in any Forthcoming Deduction of the Duty of Beneficence -- The Deduction of the Duty of Beneficence -- B. Duties to Self: A Transition to Deontological Eudaemonism -- The Very Category of Duties to Self -- The Epistemic and Moral Psychological Priority of Duties to Self -- The Evaluative Distance of Moral Self-Cognition -- The Tools of Virtue are the Tools of Happiness -- C. Another Duty to Others: Sympathy -- I.iv: A Deontological Deduction of the Obligatory Ends of Virtue -- Introduction: The Establishment of an End as a Telos via Desire-Governanceand End-Setting -- I. Desire-Governancevia a Moral-Feeling-Expressed Experience of Conscience -- Desire-Governancevia a Moral-Feeling-Expressed Experience of Conscience -- Is Respect for Persons Any Better than Self-Elevated Ruling Desires? -- A Footnote on Vice -- II. A Dedication of Obligatory Ends -- Introductory Thoughts on Deducing Obligatory Ends -- Duties of Love, Not Just of Respect -- A. Duties to Others: Beneficence -- B. Duties to Self: A Transition to Deontological Eudaemonism -- The Very Category of Duties to Self -- The Epistemic and Moral Psychological Priority of Duties to Self -- The Evaluative Distance of Moral Self-Cognition -- The Tools of Virtue are the Tools of Happiness -- C. Another Duty to Others: Sympathy -- I.v: Objections to Deontological Teleology Considered -- Introduction -- I. Objections -- Happiness, Not Respect, as a More Proper Telos? -- Reason as Foreign Invader to World of Desire? |
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Respect for Persons is an Overly Moralized Telos of Humanity? -- II. A Further Objection: A Persons-CenteredTelos Fails to Respect Non-HumanBeings? -- A Duty to and a Duty in Regard to: Direct and Indirect Duties -- A More Satisfying Notion of Duties in Regard to -- A Non-EgregiousAnthropocentric Affirmation of the Intrinsic Value of Animals and the Environment -- A Return to and Re-Visioningof Kant's Instrumental Appeal to the Usefulness of Nature for Our Purposes -- Conclusion of Part I -- PART II: DEONTOLOGICALEUDAEMONISM: The Subjective Telos of Virtue -- II.i: Apathy, Moderation, Excitement: The Herculean Work of Virtue -- Introduction: The Subjective Telos of Virtue -- I. Step One: Moral Apathetic Toleration of Sacrifice -- The Pedagogical Power of Examples of Sacrifice -- II. Step Two: Governing One's Felt Attachments in the Herculean Pursuit of the Subjective Telos of Virtue -- Moral Apathy and Moral Enlivening -- Practicing the Constraint and Cultivation of Felt Attachments -- Subduing Affects -- Governing Passions -- The Herculean Effort of Virtue -- Practicing One's Way Out of Passions -- Conclusion -- II.ii: Happiness, Rationally Conceived: Pleasure in the Virtually Unimpeded Activity of a Free Aptitude for Virtue -- Introduction -- I. Review of Secondary Literature -- II. A Kantian Story of the Pleasure of Unimpeded Activity in the Free Aptitude for Virtue -- An Aristotelian Interpretive Lens -- A Free Aptitude for Virtue -- A Free Aptitude for Virtue is the Experience of Unimpeded Activity -- III. A Transcendentally Ideal Defense of the Nature of the Pleasure One Takes in the Unimpeded Activity of Virtue -- A Reluctant Rejection of Elizondo -- Pleasure and Freedom -- The Felt Pleasure of Negative Freedom -- The Impossibility of a Non-SensibleFeeling of Pleasure in Positive Freedom |
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A Phenomenological Experience of Ease in the Exercise a Free Aptitude for Virtue -- Phenomenological Images of Harmony, Ease, and Alacrity -- Pleasure in the Ease of Virtuous Activity -- Pleasure in the Ease of Virtuous Activity is an Analog of Happiness -- To-may-to,To-mah-to? -- Conclusions on Pleasure and Happiness -- IV. Caveat #1 to Happiness: Virtually Unimpeded Activity -- Aristotle Problems -- Humble Vigilance in the Pursuit of Virtue -- V. Caveat #2 to Happiness: A Postscript on Suffering in the Life of Virtue -- Conclusion -- II.iii: Happiness, Empirically Conceived: The Virtuous, Non-Self-Absorbed Pursuit of Desire-Fulfillment -- Introduction -- I. Recent Literature on the Relationship of Morality and Happiness, Empirically Conceived -- II. An Obligatory End with a Pragmatic Purpose: The Virtuous Pursuit of Happiness -- Introduction: Is Moral Reason the Appropriate Tool forPursuing Happiness? -- The Moral Pursuit of Happiness: A Marriageof Nature and Freedom -- The Increase of Pragmatic and Moral Pleasures -- Initial Objections Answered -- III. A Picture of the Virtuous Pursuit of Happiness -- A. The Complete Marriage of Virtue and Happiness -- The Complete Marriage of Virtue and Happiness: An Objection Considered -- Another Objection Considered -- B. Values and Pleasures -- The Intertwining of Pragmatic and Moral Pleasure, and of Relative Non-Moraland Absolute Moral Values -- The Virtuous Pursuit of Happiness Is the Non-Self-Absorbed Pursuit of Happiness -- C. The Virtuous Pursuit of Happiness -- Introduction -- The Subjective Tools of Virtue for Pursuit of Happiness -- D. Concluding Thoughts -- The Distinction between Happiness and Virtue -- The Tools of Virtue Are the Tools of Happiness -- Coda on Non-MoralValue -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Kant Texts -- Secondary Works -- Index |
| Summary |
Grenberg defends the idea that Kant's virtue theory is best understood as a distinctive form of eudaemonism that makes it preferable to other forms: a system of what she calls Deontological Eudaemonism - achieving happiness both rationally conceived (as non-felt pleasure) and empirically conceived (as pleasurable fulfilment of one's desires) |
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Includes bibliographical references and index |
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Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on November 10, 2022) |
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Kant, Immanuel, 1724-1804.
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Kant, Immanuel, 1724-1804 fast |
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Virtue.
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Happiness -- Moral and ethical aspects
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Happiness -- Moral and ethical aspects
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Virtue
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Ethics & moral philosophy.
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Society.
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Electronic book
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9780192679482 |
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0192679481 |
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9780191954924 |
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0191954926 |
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