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1 online resource (220 pages) |
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Ideen & Argumente, 1862-1147 |
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Ideen & Argumente.
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| Contents |
Acknowledgements -- Contents -- List of Abbreviations -- 1 Introduction: The Human Nature Formula -- 1.1 Why Yet Another Book on How to Interpret Kant's Ethical Theory? -- 1.2 Korsgaard on Self-Constitution in the Ethics of Plato and Kant -- 1.3 How Kant's Constitutivism (as I Understand It) Differs from Korsgaard's -- 1.4 The Role of Kant's Constitutivism in the Groundwork (and the Human Nature Formula) -- 1.5 The Kantian View of Categorical Imperatives of Practical Reason -- 1.6 On the Coming Chapters -- 2 Reinterpreting the Universal Law Formula -- 2.1 Introduction -- 2.2 On The Standard Readings -- 2.3 Seven Objections to the Universal Law Formula -- 2.4 Two Radically Different Conclusions We Can Draw -- 2.5 Eight Steps Towards a New Understanding of the Universal Law Formula -- 2.6 Eight Steps Towards a New Reading, Continued -- 2.7 How to Understand the Universal Law Formula (and Its Relation to the Humanity Formula) -- 2.8 Why the Seven Objections Discussed Above All Misfire -- 2.9 Why the Seven Objections All Misfire, Continued -- 2.10 Looking Ahead -- 3 Kant's Argument for the Humanity Formula -- 3.1 Introduction -- 3.2 Kant's Argument for the Humanity Formula in His Own Words -- 3.3 The Reconstructions of Korsgaard, Wood, and other Members of the American School: Preliminaries -- 3.4 The Reconstructions of Korsgaard, Wood, and other Members of the American School, Continued -- 3.5 Three Objections to the Just-Reviewed Reconstructions of Kant's Reasoning -- 3.6 On the Absolute Value of a Good Will and the Worthiness to Be Happy -- 3.7 How to Understand Kant's Argument for the Humanity Formula -- 3.8 Is Our Reconstruction Uncharitable to Kant? -- 4 Permissibility, Virtue, and the Highest Good -- 4.1 Some Distinctions -- 4.2 Scanlon and Parfit's Objections to the Humanity Formula as a Test for Permissibility |
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4.3 Why Scanlon and Parfit's Objections Fail -- 4.4 A Kantian Moral Saint? -- 4.5 Human Flourishing and the Highest Good -- 4.6 Human Flourishing and the Highest Good, Continued -- 4.7 Concluding Remarks -- Bibliography -- Index |
| Summary |
Interest in Kant's ethical theory has intensified in recent analytic philosophy. Yet, much of this work has mixed its enthusiasm with strong criticisms. This book investigates these recent engagements with Kant's basic moral principles. It argues that most of these new criticisms rest on mistaken assumptions about how to read Kant. As an alternative, it presents an updated reading of Kant's?universal law? and?humanity? formulas |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Kant, Immanuel, 1724-1804.
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| SUBJECT |
Kant, Immanuel, 1724-1804. fast (OCoLC)fst00031763 |
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Ethics.
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Humanity.
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Ethics
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ethics (philosophy)
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Ethics.
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Humanity.
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
3110401320 |
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9783110401325 |
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9783110401400 |
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3110401401 |
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