Kant on Practical Life
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Kant on Practical Life

From Duty to History

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eBook - PDF

Kant on Practical Life

From Duty to History

About this book

Kant's 'practical philosophy' comprehends a diverse group of his writings on ethics, politics, law, religion, and the philosophy of history and culture. Kristi E. Sweet demonstrates the unity and interdependence of these writings by showing how they take as their animating principle the human desire for what Kant calls the unconditioned - understood in the context of his practical thought as human freedom. She traces the relationship between this desire for freedom and the multiple forms of finitude that confront human beings in different aspects of practical life, and stresses the interdependence of the pursuit of individual moral goodness and the formation of community through the state, religion, culture and history. This study of Kant's approach to practical life discovers that doing our duty, itself the realization of our individual freedom, requires that we set for ourselves and pursue a whole constellation of social, political and other communal ends.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Kant on Practical Life
  3. Title
  4. Copyright
  5. Dedication
  6. Contents
  7. Acknowledgments
  8. Abbreviations
  9. Introduction
  10. Chapter One Freedom of the self as such: The good will, duty, and moral feeling
  11. Chapter Two Freedom of the self over time: Virtue
  12. Chapter Three Freedom of the self and the moral world: The highest good
  13. Chapter Four Enacting the moral world: Founding and promoting a civil condition
  14. Chapter Five Enacting the moral world: Joining the ethical community
  15. Chapter Six Human finitude undone: Culture and history
  16. Conclusion
  17. Bibliography
  18. Index