Kant and applied ethics : the uses and limits of Kant's practical philosophy / Matthew C. Altman.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Altman, Matthew C.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Applied ethics.

Ethical problems.

Kant, Immanuel, 1724-1804.

Kant, Immanuel.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (614 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Chichester, West Sussex ; Malden, MA : Wiley-Blackwell, 2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Kant and Applied Ethics makes an important contribution to Kant scholarship, illuminating the vital moral parameters of key ethical debates. Offers a critical analysis of Kant's ethics, interrogating the theoretical bases of his theory and evaluating their strengths and weaknessesExamines the controversies surrounding the most important ethical discussions taking place today, including abortion, the death penalty, and same-sex marriageJoins innovative thinkers in contemporary Kantian scholarship, including Christine Korsgaard, Allen Wood, and Barbara Herm

Contents:

Cover; Title page; Copyright page; Preface; Note on Sources and Key to Abbreviations; Introduction: Why Kant Now; Part I: Applying Kant's Ethics; 1 Animal Suffering and Moral Character; Kant's Logocentrism; Kant's Justification for Our Duties (with Regard) to Nonrational Animals; Implications of Kant's View for Our Treatment of Animals; Kantians Revising Kant: Wood and Korsgaard; Problems with Wood and Korsgaard; Kant's Response to Wolff: The Difference between Animal Choice and Moral Agency; Evaluating Pain and Pleasure; Kant's Practical Appeal; Final Thoughts for the Nonanthropocentrist

2 Kant's Strategic Importance for Environmental EthicsNatural Purposiveness in the Critique of Judgment; Furthering Nature's Purposes: The Stewardship Model; The Value of Nature for Humanity; Considering Future Generations; Beauty as a Symbol of Morality; Preserving the Sublime; Developing Kantian Virtues; Norton's Convergence Hypothesis and Light's Practical Pluralism; The Appeal to Common Sense; Kant's Place in the Debate over Environmental Policy; 3 Moral and Legal Arguments for Universal Health Care; The Moral Duty to Assist Others in Their Health Care

Health Care Should Be Provided by the Government The Duty to Provide Truly Universal Health Care; Rejecting the Liberal Model; 4 The Scope of Patient Autonomy; Physician-Assisted Suicide; Refusing Life-Saving Medical Treatment; Organ Donation: Opt-in or Opt-out?; Autonomy and the Body; Part II: Kantian Arguments against Kant's Conclusions; 5 Subjecting Ourselves to Capital Punishment; The Difference between Morality and Legality; Retribution and the Death Penalty; Consenting to Capital Punishment; Determining the "Inner Wickedness" of the Accused; The Fallibility of Justice

Capital Punishment Cannot Be Categorically Demanded of USA Moral Assessment of the Supposed Duty to Kill; Do These Objections Rule Out All Punishments?; Whose Dignity Is at Stake?; 6 Same-Sex Marriage as a Means to Mutual Respect; Sex Is Morally Problematic; Sex Is (Conditionally) Good; Exchanging Ourselves: Marriage in the Moral philosophie Collins; Kant and Political Liberalism; Transforming Ourselves into Husbands and Wives: Marriage in the Metaphysics of Morals; Is Something Wrong Because It Is Unnatural?; Pleasure as an End of Nature; Marital Equality as a Criterion of Legitimacy

How the Same-Sex Marriage Debate Should Proceed Part III: Limitations of Kant's Theory; 7 Consent, Mail-Order Brides, and the Marriage Contract; The Purpose of Marriage; Consent and Coercion; Mail-Order Marriages as the Kantian Ideal; Treating Mail-Order Brides Merely as Means; Attempts to Criticize Mail-Order Marriages from a Kantian Perspective; Are Mail-Order Brides Coerced?; Questioning the a priori Basis of Kant's Ethics; Notes toward a Genealogy of Kantianism; 8 Individual Maxims and Social Justice; How Kant Answers Hegel's Formalism Charge

Basic Principles versus Particular Duties: Kant and Rawls

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781118114124

1118114124

9781118114131

1118114132

9781118114162

1118114167

OCLC:

830170949