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Kant on Freedom, Law, and Happiness

2000-02-13 History
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Book Synopsis Kant on Freedom, Law, and Happiness by : Paul Guyer

Download or read book Kant on Freedom, Law, and Happiness written by Paul Guyer. This book was released on 2000-02-13. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kant is often portrayed as the author of a rigid system of ethics in which adherence to a formal and universal principle of morality - the famous categorical imperative - is an end itself, and any concern for human goals and happiness a strictly secondary and subordinate matter. Such a theory seems to suit perfectly rational beings but not human beings. The twelve essays in this collection by one of the world's preeminent Kant scholars argue for a radically different account of Kant's ethics. They explore an interpretation of the moral philosophy according to which freedom is the fundamental end of human action, but an end that can only be preserved and promoted by adherence to moral law. By radically revising the traditional interpretation of Kant's moral and political philosophy and by showing how Kant's coherent liberalism can guide us in current debates, Paul Guyer will find an audience across moral and political philosophy, intellectual history, and political science.

The Virtues of Freedom

2016-12-01 Philosophy
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Release : 2016-12-01
Genre : Philosophy
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Book Synopsis The Virtues of Freedom by : Paul Guyer

Download or read book The Virtues of Freedom written by Paul Guyer. This book was released on 2016-12-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The essays collected in this volume by Paul Guyer, one of the world's foremost Kant scholars, explore Kant's attempt to develop a morality grounded on the intrinsic and unconditional value of the human freedom to set our own ends. When regulated by the principle that the freedom of all is equally valuable, the freedom to set our own ends -- what Kant calls "humanity" - becomes what he calls autonomy. These essays explore Kant's strategies for establishing the premise that freedom is the inner worth of the world or the essential end of humankind, as he says, and for deriving the specific duties that fundamental principle of morality generates in the empirical circumstances of human existence. The Virtues of Freedom further investigates Kant's attempts to prove that we are always free to live up to this moral ideal, that is, that we have free will no matter what, as well as his more successful explorations of the ways in which our natural tendencies to be moral -- dispositions to the feeling of respect and more specific feelings such as love and self-esteem -- can and must be cultivated and educated. Guyer finally examines the various models of human community that Kant develops from his premise that our associations must be based on the value of freedom for all. The contrasts but also similarities of Kant's moral philosophy to that of David Hume but many of his other predecessors and contemporaries, such as Stoics and Epicureans, Pufendorf and Wolff, Hutcheson, Kames, and Smith, are also explored.

Kant's 'Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals'

2009-12-24 Philosophy
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Release : 2009-12-24
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Book Synopsis Kant's 'Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals' by : Jens Timmermann

Download or read book Kant's 'Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals' written by Jens Timmermann. This book was released on 2009-12-24. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume discusses Kant's philosophical development in the Groundwork and his attempt to justify the categorical imperative as a principle of freedom.

Kant’s Moral Metaphysics

2010-06-29 Philosophy
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Release : 2010-06-29
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Book Synopsis Kant’s Moral Metaphysics by : Benjamin Bruxvoort Lipscomb

Download or read book Kant’s Moral Metaphysics written by Benjamin Bruxvoort Lipscomb. This book was released on 2010-06-29. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Morality has traditionally been understood to be tied to certain metaphysical beliefs: notably, in the freedom of human persons (to choose right or wrong courses of action), in a god (or gods) who serve(s) as judge(s) of moral character, and in an afterlife as the locus of a “final judgment” on individual behavior. Some scholars read the history of moral philosophy as a gradual disentangling of our moral commitments from such beliefs. Kant is often given an important place in their narratives, despite the fact that Kant himself asserts that some of such beliefs are necessary (necessary, at least, from the practical point of view). Many contemporary neo-Kantian moral philosophers have embraced these “disentangling” narratives or, at any rate, have minimized the connection of Kant’s practical philosophy with controversial metaphysical commitments ‐ even with Kant’s transcendental idealism. This volume re-evaluates those interpretations. It is arguably the first collection to systematically explore the metaphysical commitments central to Kant’s practical philosophy, and thus the connections between Kantian ethics, his philosophy of religion, and his epistemological claims concerning our knowledge of the supersensible.

Understanding Kant's Ethics

2016-11-17 Philosophy
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Book Synopsis Understanding Kant's Ethics by : Michael Cholbi

Download or read book Understanding Kant's Ethics written by Michael Cholbi. This book was released on 2016-11-17. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A systematic guide to Kant's ethical work and the debates surrounding it, accessible to students and specialists alike.

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