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Record Nr.

UNINA9910452512203321

Autore

Sweet Kristi E. <1976->

Titolo

Kant on practical life : from duty to history / / Kristi E. Sweet [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2013

ISBN

1-139-89175-8

1-107-28982-3

1-107-28926-2

1-107-57641-5

1-107-29415-0

1-139-58388-3

1-107-29136-4

1-107-29031-7

1-107-29308-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xi, 223 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)

Disciplina

193

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 24 Feb 2016).

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction -- 1. Freedom of the self as such: the good will, duty, and moral feeling -- 2. Freedom of the self over time: virtue -- 3. Freedom of the self and the moral world: the highest good -- 4. Enacting the moral world: founding and promoting a civil condition -- 5. Enacting the moral world: joining the ethical community -- 6. Human finitude undone: culture and history -- Conclusion: practical reason's 'peculiar fate'.

Sommario/riassunto

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.