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Record Nr.

UNINA9910811684603321

Autore

Sensen Oliver

Titolo

Kant on human dignity / / Oliver Sensen

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berlin ; ; Boston, : De Gruyter, c2011

ISBN

1-283-43057-6

9786613430571

3-11-026716-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (244 p.)

Collana

Kantstudien. Ergänzungshefte, , 0340-6059 ; ; 166

Classificazione

CF 5017

Disciplina

179.7092

179.7

Soggetti

Dignity

Respect for persons

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 indexes.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- Part I. Respect for Others -- Respect for Others -- Chapter 1: Kant's Conception of Value -- Chapter 2: The Value of Humanity -- Chapter 3: Kant's Formula of Humanity -- Part II. Kant's Conception of Dignity -- Kant's Conception of Dignity -- Chapter 4: Three Paradigms of Dignity -- Chapter 5: Kant's Conception of Human Dignity -- Conclusion -- References -- Author Index -- Subject Index

Sommario/riassunto

Immanuel Kant is often considered to be the source of the contemporary idea of human dignity, but his conception of human dignity and its relation to human value and to the requirement to respect others have not been widely understood. Kant on Human Dignity offers the first in-depth study in English of this subject. Based on a comprehensive analysis of all the passages in which Kant uses the term 'dignity', as well as an analysis of the most prominent arguments for a value of human beings in the Kant literature, the book carefully examines different ways of construing the relationship between dignity, value and respect for others. It takes seriously Kant's Copernican Revolution in moral philosophy: Kant argues that moral imperatives cannot be based on any values without yielding heteronomy. Instead it is imperatives of reason that determine what is valuable. The



requirement to respect all human beings is one such imperative. Respect for human beings does not follow from human dignity-for this would violate autonomy-but is an unconditional command of reason. Following this train of thought yields a unified account of Kant's moral philosophy.