The highest good in Aristotle and Kant / edited by Joachim Aufderheide and Ralf M. Bader.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Aufderheide, Joachim, editor.

Bader, Ralf M., editor.

Series:

Mind Association occasional series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Kant, Immanuel, 1724-1804.

Aristotle.

Ethics.

Aristotle--Ethics.

Kant, Immanuel, 1724-1804--Ethics.

Physical Description:

vii, 245 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2015.

Summary:

The notion of the highest good used to occupy a primary role in ethical theorising, but has largely disappeared from the contemporary landscape. The notion was central to both Aristotle's and Kant's ethical theories, however-a surprising observation given that their approaches to ethics are commonly conceived as being diametrically opposed. The essays in this collection provide a comprehensive treatment of the highest good in Aristotle and Kant and show that, even though there are important differences in terms of content, there are also important similarities in terms of the structural features of Aristotle's and Kant's value theories. By carefully analysing Aristotle's and Kant's theories of the highest good, a team of experts in the field shed light on their respective ethical theories and highlight the richness, complexity and fruitfulness of the notion of the highest good. Book jacket.

Contents:

Introduction

Determining the good in action: wish, deliberation, and choice / Dorothea Frede

The content of happiness: a new case for Theôria / Joachim Aufderheide

Aristotle on the highest good: a new approach / David Charles

The Summum Bonum in Aristotle's Ethics: fractured goodness / Christopher Shields

'The end of all human action'/'The final object of all my conduct': Aristotle and Kant on the highest good / Robert B. Louden

The complete object of practical knowledge / Stephen Engstrom

The inner voice: Kant on conditionality and God as cause / Rachel Barney

Kant's theory of the highest good / Ralf M. Bader

The highest good: who needs it? / David Sussman

Why some things must remain unknown: Kant on faith, moral motivation, and the highest good / Jens Timmermann

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780198714019

0198714017

OCLC:

911504180