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Kant's Lectures on Ethics
Author: Lara Denis
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2015-04-23
Total Pages: 311
ISBN-13: 1316194574
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This is the first book devoted to an examination of Kant's lectures on ethics, which provide a unique and revealing perspective on the development of his views. In fifteen newly commissioned essays, leading Kant scholars discuss four sets of student notes reflecting different periods of Kant's career: those taken by Herder (1762–4), Collins (mid-1770s), Mrongovius (1784–5) and Vigilantius (1793–4). The essays cover a diverse range of topics, from the relation between Kant's lectures and the Baumgarten textbooks, to obligation, virtue, love, the highest good, freedom, the categorical imperative, moral motivation and religion. Together they provide the reader with a deeper and fuller understanding of the evolution of Kant's moral thought. The volume will be of interest to a range of readers in Kant studies, ethics, political philosophy, religious studies and the history of ideas.
Understanding Moral Obligation
Author: Robert Stern
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2011-12-15
Total Pages: 293
ISBN-13: 1139505017
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →In many histories of modern ethics, Kant is supposed to have ushered in an anti-realist or constructivist turn by holding that unless we ourselves 'author' or lay down moral norms and values for ourselves, our autonomy as agents will be threatened. In this book, Robert Stern challenges the cogency of this 'argument from autonomy', and claims that Kant never subscribed to it. Rather, it is not value realism but the apparent obligatoriness of morality that really poses a challenge to our autonomy: how can this be accounted for without taking away our freedom? The debate the book focuses on therefore concerns whether this obligatoriness should be located in ourselves (Kant), in others (Hegel) or in God (Kierkegaard). Stern traces the historical dialectic that drove the development of these respective theories, and clearly and sympathetically considers their merits and disadvantages; he concludes by arguing that the choice between them remains open.
Kant on Conscience
Author: Emre Kazim
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2017-01-23
Total Pages: 217
ISBN-13: 9004340661
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →In Kant on Conscience Emre Kazim offers the first systematic treatment of Kant’s theory of conscience. Contrary to the scholarly consensus, Kazim argues that Kant’s various discussions of conscience are philosophically coherent aspects of the same unified thing (‘Unity Thesis’).
Understanding Kant's Ethics
Author: Michael Cholbi
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2016-11-17
Total Pages: 247
ISBN-13: 1107163463
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A systematic guide to Kant's ethical work and the debates surrounding it, accessible to students and specialists alike.
Kant and the Ethics of Humility
Author: Jeanine Grenberg
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2005-02-24
Total Pages: 288
ISBN-13: 9780521846813
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Kant's Metaphysics of Morals
Author: Lara Denis
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2010-10-28
Total Pages: 285
ISBN-13: 1139492632
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →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.
Religion and Rational Theology
Author: Immanuel Kant
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2001-03-19
Total Pages: 546
ISBN-13: 1316101673
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This volume collects for the first time in a single volume all of Kant's writings on religion and rational theology. These works were written during a period of conflict between Kant and the Prussian authorities over his religious teachings. His final statement of religion was made after the death of King Frederick William II in 1797. The historical context and progression of this conflict are charted in the general introduction to the volume and in the translators' introductions to particular texts. All the translations are new with the exception of The Conflict of the Faculties, where the translation has been revised and re-edited to conform to the guidelines of the Cambridge Edition. As is standard with all the volumes in this edition, there are copious linguistic and explanatory notes, and a glossary of key terms.
Virtue and Self-knowledge
Kant and the Problem of Self-Knowledge
Author: Luca Forgione
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2018-10-17
Total Pages: 214
ISBN-13: 0429762941
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This book addresses the problem of self-knowledge in Kant’s philosophy. As Kant writes in his major works of the critical period, it is due to the simple and empty representation ‘I think’ that the subject’s capacity for self-consciousness enables the subject to represent its own mental dimension. This book articulates Kant’s theory of self-knowledge on the basis of the following three philosophical problems: 1) a semantic problem regarding the type of reference of the representation ‘I’; 2) an epistemic problem regarding the type of knowledge relative to the thinking subject produced by the representation ‘I think’; and 3) a strictly metaphysical problem regarding the features assigned to the thinking subject’s nature. The author connects the relevant scholarly literature on Kant with contemporary debates on the huge philosophical field of self-knowledge. He develops a formal reading according to which the unity of self-consciousness does not presuppose the identity of a real subject, but a formal identity based on the representation ‘I think’.
