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Record Nr.

UNINA9910466889403321

Autore

Edwards Jeffrey <1951->

Titolo

Autonomy, moral worth, and right : Kant on obligatory ends, respect for law, and original acquisition / / Jeffrey Edwards

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berlin ; ; Boston : , : De Gruyter, , [2018]

©2018

ISBN

3-11-051611-X

3-11-051740-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xvi, 353 pages)

Collana

Kantstudien-Ergänzungshefte, , 0340-6059 ; ; Band 198

Classificazione

PI 2670

Disciplina

170.92

Soggetti

Ethics

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (pages 322-341) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Note on Sources, Abbreviations, and Translations -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Part I: Obligatory Ends, Material Practical Principles, and Practical Law in Kant’s Doctrine of Morals -- Chapter 1: Reason’s Lawgiving and Obligatory Ends in the Metaphysics of Morals -- Chapter 2: Obligatory Ends and the Grounding of Maxims: A Key Problem in Kant’s Moral Doctrine of Ends -- Chapter 3: The Principle of Self-Love and Material Practical Principles in the Critique of Practical Reason -- Part II: Moral Worth and Motivation in Kant and Hume -- Chapter 4: Eudaimonistic Etiology, Own-Perfection, and Moral Worth -- Chapter 5: Moral Worth and Motivation in Kant’s Criticism of Sentimentalist Ethics -- Part III: Kant’s Juridical Theory of Right and the Foundations of Property Law -- Chapter 6: Original Community, Possession, and Acquisition in Kant’s Doctrine of Right -- Chapter 7: Original Acquisition in Kant, Grotius, and Selden -- Part IV: Placing Kant in his History of Moral Philosophy -- Chapter 8: Kant’s Classification of Material Principles of Morality in the Critique of Practical Reason -- Chapter 9: Hutcheson and Rousseau in the Development of Kant’s Doctrine of Morals -- Chapter 10: Sentimentalist Ethics and Natural Law -- Chapter 11: Kant and the Role of the Honestum in Sentimentalist and Rationalist Ethics -- Chapter 12: Natural Right, Material Equality, and the Normative Basis of Acquisition



-- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

This book examines the surprising ramifications of Kant’s late account of practical reason’s obligatory ends as well as a revolutionary implication of his theory of property. It thereby sheds new light on Kant’s place in the history of modern moral philosophy.