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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Louden, Robert B., 1953- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Kant, Immanuel, 1724-1804.

Kant, Immanuel.

Human beings.

Philosophical anthropology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxviii, 222 pages)

Other Title:

Essays on his theory of human nature

Place of Publication:

New York : Oxford University Press, 2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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 Drawing on a wide variety of both published and unpublished works spanning all periods of Kant's extensive writing career, Louden here focuses on Kant's under-appreciated empirical work on human nature, with particular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

Contents:

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?

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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ISBN:

0-19-991110-X

0-19-026759-3

1-283-16845-6

9786613168450

0-19-987758-0

OCLC:

742333461