Idealist ethics / W.J. Mander.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Mander, W. J., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ethics.

Idealism.

Physical Description:

xi, 276 pages ; 24 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2016.

Contents:

Part I

1 What is Idealism? 3

1.1 Definitions and the Idealist Family 4

1.2 Idealism and Ideas 6

1.3 Idealism and Minds 10

1.4 Varieties of Mind 11

1.5 The Primacy of Ideas 13

1.6 Immaterialism 14

2 The Notion of Idealist Ethics 15

2.1 The Tradition of Idealist Ethics 16

2.2 Rationale and Methodological Preliminaries 21

2.3 An Overview 23

Part II

3 Idealism and the Fact-Value Distinction (I) 29

3.1 Plato's Ethical Ontology 29

3.2 The Humean and Kantian Distinctions 30

3.3 Idealism and the Fact-Value Distinction 32

3.4 Fichte's Response to Kant's Dualism 34

4 Idealism and the Fact-Value Distinction (II) 42

4.1 Hegel's Response to Fichte and Kant 42

4.2 Hegel on Reason and Desire 44

4.3 Fact and Value in British Idealism 46

4.4 The Presence of Desire in Belief 48

4.5 The Presence of Belief in Desire 51

4.6 Metaphysical Foundations 53

Part III

5 The Argument from Value and Valuing 59

5.1 Ideal Love 62

5.2 Ideal Desire 64

5.3 Ideal Choice 68

5.4 Issues of Idealization 70

6 The Kantian Argument from Autonomy 75

6.1 Autonomy as an Argument Against Moral Realism 75

6.2 Kantian Moral Realism 78

6.3 Kantian Moral Constructivism 82

6.4 The Will that Wills Itself 83

7 The Axiarchic Argument 87

7.1 The Reality of Value 87

7.2 The Axiarchic Argument 89

7.3 Assessing the Axiarchic Argument 93

7.4 Idealism and the Axiarchic Argument 96

8 Teleology 100

8.1 Teleology and Idealism 100

8.2 Kantian Teleology 102

8.3 Hegelian Teleology 108

8.4 Lotze's Teleology 112

9 The Heart of Idealist Metaethics 116

9.1 The Moral Self 117

9.2 Mind, World, and Value 121

9.3 Idealism and the Self-Reflexive Nature of Value 124

Part IV

10 Idealist Hedonism 133

10.1 Berkeley 134

10.2 Lotze 136

10.3 Sprigge 138

10.4 Objections to Idealistic Hedonism 140

11 Idealism and the Will 144

11.1 Kant and the Logic of Universalizabtlity 145

11.2 Josiah Royce and the Logic of Loyalty 147

11.3 H. J. Paton and the Good Will 151

12 Idealism and Self-Realization 155

12.1 The Ideal of Self-Realization 156

12.2 The Social Self 158

12.3 The Cosmic or Divine Self 160

12.4 The Origin of Moral Obligation 161

Part V

13 The Ethics of Idealization 169

13.1 The Ethics of Idealization 170

13.2 Philosophical Idealism and the Ethics of the Ideal 171

13.3 Abstract Ideals 173

13.4 The Perfection of the Individual 175

13.5 Social Perfection 178

14 The Ideal and the Real 182

14.1 The Knowability of Ideals 182

14.2 The Rationality of Ideals 184

14.3 The Worth of Ideals 186

14.4 The Hegelian Infinite 187

14.5 Idealization and Realization 190

Part VI

15 Idealism and Altruism 197

15.1 Royce and 'the Moral Insight' 197

15.2 Schopenhauer and Compassion 199

15.3 Bosanquet and Idealistic Universals 205

15.3.1 Bosanquets theory of value 206

15.3.2 Bosanquets theory of selfhood 207

15.3.3 Bosanquets 'altruism' 208

16 Idealism, Society, and Community 211

16.1 Doctrine of the Social Self and the Common Good 211

16.2 Marietta Kies: Idealism and Altruism 213

16.3 Personal Idealism and Community 216

16.4 Royce: The Beloved Community 218

16.5 McTaggart: The Metaphysics of Love 222

Part VII

17 Idealism and Free Will 227

17.1 The Denial of Materialism 227

17.2 Awareness of Agency 228

17.3 Atemporal Freedom 233

17.4 Freedom as Rationality 236

17.5 Freedom as Self-Expression 238

18 Idealism and Holism 240

18.1 The Holism and Contextualism of Value 240

18.2 Idealism and Relations 243

18.3 Relations and Value 247

19 The Idealistic View of the Universe 249

19.1 Pluralistic Personal Idealism 251

19.2 Panpsychism 254

19.3 Absolutism and Pantheism 256.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 259-271) and index.

ISBN:

9780198748892

0198748892

OCLC:

918879107