1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910797442703321

Autore

Nyholm Sven <1981->

Titolo

Revisiting Kant's universal law and humanity formulas / / Sven Nyholm

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berlin, [Germany] ; ; Boston, [Massachusetts] : , : De Gruyter, , 2015

©2015

ISBN

3-11-040132-0

3-11-040140-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (180 p.)

Collana

Ideen & Argumente, , 1862-1147

Classificazione

CF 5017

Disciplina

170.92

Soggetti

Ethics

Humanity

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Front matter -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- List of Abbreviations -- 1 Introduction: The Human Nature Formula -- 2 Reinterpreting the Universal Law Formula -- 3 Kant’s Argument for the Humanity Formula -- 4 Permissibility, Virtue, and the Highest Good -- Bibliography -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

This book offers new readings of Kant’s “universal law” and “humanity” formulations of the categorical imperative. It shows how, on these readings, the formulas do indeed turn out being alternative statements of the same basic moral law, and in the process responds to many of the standard objections raised against Kant’s theory. Its first chapter briefly explores the ways in which Kant draws on his philosophical predecessors such as Plato (and especially Plato’s Republic) and Jean-Jacque Rousseau. The second chapter offers a new reading of the relation between the universal law and humanity formulas by relating both of these to a third formula of Kant’s, viz. the “law of nature” formula, and also to Kant’s ideas about laws in general and human nature in particular. The third chapter considers and rejects some influential recent attempts to understand Kant’s argument for the humanity formula, and offers an alternative reconstruction instead. Chapter four considers what it is to flourish as a human being in line with Kant’s basic formulas of morality, and argues that the standard



readings of the humanity formula cannot properly account for its relation to Kant’s views about the highest human good.

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910484070003321

Titolo

Migration, Regionalization, Citizenship : Comparing Canada and Europe / / edited by Katja Sarkowsky, Rainer-Olaf Schultze, Sabine Schwarze

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Wiesbaden : , : Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden : , : Imprint : Springer VS, , 2015

ISBN

3-658-06583-4

Edizione

[1st ed. 2015.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (270 p.)

Collana

Politikwissenschaftliche Paperbacks, Studien und Texte zu den politischen Problemfeldern und Wandlungstendenzen westlicher Industriegesellschaften, , 2627-7298

Disciplina

300

304.8

320

327

Soggetti

Comparative government

International relations

Emigration and immigration

Comparative Politics

International Relations

Migration

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

Migration, Transnationalism, and Labor -- Citizenship, Multiculturalism, and Representation -- Regionalism, Language and Identity.

Sommario/riassunto

From the perspectives of the political sciences as well as literature and language studies, this volume looks comparatively at Canadian and European constellations of cultural and linguistic diversity. By so doing, it takes Canada as exemplary for the effects of transnationalization, regionalization, and cultural and linguistic diversification on notions of



citizenship and processes of identity formation.   Content • Migration, Transnationalism, and Labour • Citizenship, Multiculturalism, and Representation • Regionalism, Language, and Identity   Target Groups • Researchers and students in the field of English and Romance cultural studies and linguistics as well as social sciences • Practitioners of English and Romance cultural studies   The Editors Prof. Dr. Katja Sarkowsky holds the Chair of American Studies at the Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster. Prof. Dr. em. Rainer-Olaf Schultze was Professor for Political Science and Managing Director of the Institute for Canadian Studies at the University of Augsburg (until 2011). Prof. Dr. Sabine Schwarze holds the Chair of Romance Linguistics at the University of Augsburg.