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Record Nr.

UNINA9910819899703321

Autore

Louden Robert B. <1953->

Titolo

Kant's human being : essays on his theory of human nature / / Robert B. Louden

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : Oxford University Press, c2011

ISBN

0-19-991110-X

0-19-026759-3

1-283-16845-6

9786613168450

0-19-987758-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (256 p.)

Disciplina

128.092

Soggetti

Human beings

Philosophical anthropology

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

Kant's virtue ethics -- Moral strength : virtue as a duty to oneself -- Kantian moral humility : between Aristotle and Paul -- "Firm as rock in her own principles" : (but not necessarily a Kantian) -- The second part of morals -- Applying Kant's ethics : the role of anthropology -- Anthropology from a Kantian point of view : toward a cosmopolitan conception of human nature -- Making the law visible : the role of examples in Kant's ethics -- Evil everywhere : the ordinariness of Kantian radical evil -- "The play of nature" : human beings in Kant's geography -- Becoming human : Kant and the philosophy of education  -- National character via the beautiful and sublime?

Sommario/riassunto

In Kant's Human Being, Robert B. Louden continues and deepens avenues of research first initiated in his highly acclaimed book, Kant's Impure Ethics. Drawing on a wide variety of both published and unpublished works spanning all periods of Kant's extensive writing career, Louden here focuses on Kant's under-appreciated empirical work on human nature, with particular attention to the connections between this body of work and his much-discussed ethical theory. Kant repeatedly claimed that the question, ""What is the human being"" is



philosophy's most fundamental question, one that encompasses al