Kant's Ethics
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Kant's Ethics

The Good, Freedom, and the Will

  1. 374 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Kant's Ethics

The Good, Freedom, and the Will

About this book

Kant's Ethics: The Good, Freedom, and the Will is a systematic examination of Kant's ethics that recognizes the central importance of the good in relation to duty as forming a unified whole, in accordance with Kant's intent. The Enlightenment, by undermining the religious foundations of morality, prompted Kant to offer a new foundation for ethics based not on religion but on reason. The first chapter provides the context of Kant's ethics and explains the criteria by which to select views that are authoritative among Kant's variety of statements. With these criteria for interpretation in hand, the book attempts a systematic account of Kant's ethics as he developed it over a period of more than 40 years. Kant's Ethics includes an analysis of the tripartite nature of the will in its dynamic unity and the relation of the will to the good. An appendix, "Kant at Auschwitz," briefly considers a serious problem for Kant's political philosophy that follows from his insistence on obeying civil authority.

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Table of contents

  1. Preface
  2. Foreword
  3. Introduction
  4. Chapter I: The Context Of Kant’s Ethics
  5. Chapter II: The Copernican Revolution In Ethics: The Good Reexamined
  6. Chapter III: Kant’s Analysis Of The Will
  7. Chapter IV: The Moral Good And The Natural Good
  8. Chapter V: The Highest Good As The Material Object Of Moral Volition
  9. Chapter VI: The Highest Good As Immanent And As Transcendent
  10. Chapter VII: The Moral Task: The Embodiment Of The Highest Good
  11. Chapter VIII: The Role Of Judgment In Kant’s Procedural Formalism
  12. Chapter IX: The Role Of Judgment In The Embodiment Of The Highest Good
  13. Chapter X: Summary And Assessment
  14. Appendix: Kant at Auschwitz
  15. Kant’s Works And Their Abbreviations
  16. Bibliography
  17. Acknowledgements
  18. Index