Kant's ethics : the good, freedom, and the will / by John Silber.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Silber, John, 1926-2012.

Contributor:

Anne and Joseph Trachtman Memorial Book Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Kant, Immanuel, 1724-1804.

Kant, Immanuel.

Ethics, Modern.

Physical Description:

xiv, 363 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Boston : Walter de Gruyter, [2012]

Summary:

Kant is commonly regarded as a deontologist, and duty, rather than the good, is placed at the center of his ethics. By a comprehensive examination of Kant's views of the good, freedom and the will, this book aims to dispel this common misconception of Kant's ethics and to replace it with a richer understanding that gives proper emphasis to the central importance of the good, restoring the balanced relationship Kant intended between duty and the good. The Enlightenment, by undermining the religious foundations of morality, prompted Kant to offer a new foundation for ethics based not on religion but on reason. This book is highly relevant to the contemporary discussion of Kant. Its emphasis on the importance of the concept of the good in Kant's ethics represents an important alternative to most interpretations advanced today. Book jacket.

Contents:

The context of Kant's ethics

The Copernican revolution in ethics : the good reexamined

Kant's doctrine of will

The moral good and the natural good

The highest good as the material object of moral volition

The highest good as immanent and as transcendent

The moral task : the embodiment of the highest good

Kant's procedural formalism, or, the role of judgment in Kant's procedural formalism

The role of judgment in the embodiment of the highest good

Summary and assessment

Appendix. Kant at Auschwitz.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Anne and Joseph Trachtman Memorial Book Fund.

ISBN:

1614510717

9781614510710

9781614510741

1614510741

OCLC:

759695849

Publisher Number:

99950199021