The virtues of freedom : selected essays on Kant / Paul Guyer.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Guyer, Paul, 1948- author.

Standardized Title:

Essays. Selections

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Kant, Immanuel, 1724-1804--Ethics.

Kant, Immanuel.

Kant, Immanuel, 1724-1804.

Liberty.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxii, 314 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Other Title:

Selected essays on Kant

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2016.

Summary:

This volume of essays by one of the world's foremost Kant scholars explores the efforts of the great Enlightenment philosopher Immanuel Kant (1724-1804) to construct a moral philosophy based on the premise that the most fundamental value for human beings is their freedom to set their own ends.

Contents:

Kant, autonomy, and modernity

Is and ought: from Hume to Kant, and now

Freedom as the foundation of morality: Kant's early efforts

Freedom and the essential ends of humankind

Kantian perfectionism

Setting and pursuing ends: internal and external freedom

Freedom, ends, and duties in Vigilantius

The proof structure of the Groundwork and the role of section III

Proving ourselves free

Problems with freedom: Kant's argument in Groundwork III and its subsequent emendations

Natural and rational belief: Kant's final words?

A passion for reason: Hume, Kant, and the motivation for morality

The obligation to be virtuous: Kant's conception of the Tugendverpfichtung

Kant on moral feelings: from the lectures to the Metaphysics of Morals

Examples of moral possibility

Kantian communities: the realm of ends, the ethical community, and the highest good.

Notes:

This edition previously issued in print: 2016.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on November 18, 2016).

Other Format:

Print version :

ISBN:

0-19-183182-4