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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Silber, John, 1926-2012.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ethics, Modern.

Kant, Immanuel, 1724-1804.

Kant, Immanuel.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (380 p.)

Place of Publication:

Boston : De Gruyter, c2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Kant's Ethics: The Good, Freedom, and the Will is a systematic examination of Kant's ethics that recognizes the central importance of the good in relation to duty as forming a unified whole, in accordance with Kant's intent. 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. The first chapter provides the context of Kant's ethics and explains the criteria by which to select views that are authoritative among Kant's variety of statements. With these criteria for interpretation in hand, the book attempts a systematic account of Kant's ethics as he developed it over a period of more than 40 years. Kant's Ethics includes an analysis of the tripartite nature of the will in its dynamic unity and the relation of the will to the good. An appendix, "Kant at Auschwitz," briefly considers a serious problem for Kant's political philosophy that follows from his insistence on obeying civil authority.

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:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781283857925

1283857928

9781614510741

1614510741

9781614510758

161451075X

OCLC:

796384423