Kant's moral metaphysics : God, freedom, and immortality / edited by Benjamin J. Bruxvoort Lipscomb and James Krueger.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Lipscomb, Benjamin J. Bruxvoort.

Krueger, James.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ethics.

Philosophical theology.

Kant, Immanuel, 1724-1804.

Kant, Immanuel.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (342 pages)

Place of Publication:

New York : De Gruyter, c2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Morality has traditionally been understood to be tied to certain metaphysical beliefs: notably, in the freedom of human persons (to choose right or wrong courses of action), in a god (or gods) who serve(s) as judge(s) of moral character, and in an afterlife as the locus of a "final judgment" on individual behavior. Some scholars read the history of moral philosophy as a gradual disentangling of our moral commitments from such beliefs. Kant is often given an important place in their narratives, despite the fact that Kant himself asserts that some of such beliefs are necessary (necessary, at least, from the practical point of view). Many contemporary neo-Kantian moral philosophers have embraced these "disentangling" narratives or, at any rate, have minimized the connection of Kant's practical philosophy with controversial metaphysical commitments - even with Kant's transcendental idealism. This volume re-evaluates those interpretations. It is arguably the first collection to systematically explore the metaphysical commitments central to Kant's practical philosophy, and thus the connections between Kantian ethics, his philosophy of religion, and his epistemological claims concerning our knowledge of the supersensible.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Table of Contents

Introduction

Section I. Moral Motivation, Moral Metaphysics

CHAPTER 1. Reality, Reason, and Religion in the Development of Kant's Ethics

CHAPTER 2. Moral Imperfection and Moral Phenomenology in Kant

Section II. Interpreting Freedom

CHAPTER 3. Two Standpoints and the Problem of Moral Anthropology

CHAPTER 4. In Search of the Phenomenal Face of Freedom

Section III. The Highest Good

CHAPTER 5. Something to Love: Kant and the Faith of Reason

CHAPTER 6. Duties, Ends and the Divine Corporation

Section IV. Epistemology and the Supersensible

CHAPTER 7. Real Repugnance and Belief about Things-in-Themselves: A Problem and Kant's Three Solutions

CHAPTER 8. Practical Cognition, Intuition, and the Fact of Reason

Section V. Epistemology and Religion

CHAPTER 9. Kant's Reidianism: The Role of Common Sense in Kant's Epistemology of Religious Belief

CHAPTER 10. Kant on the Hiddenness of God

CHAPTER 11. Kant's Account of Practical Fanaticism

Backmatter

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786612706530

9781282706538

1282706535

9783110220049

3110220040

OCLC:

654029406