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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Guyer, Paul, 1948- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Kant, Immanuel, 1724-1804.

Kant, Immanuel.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Edition:

First edition.

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:

Preface

Abbreviations

Sources

Introduction

1 Kant, Autonomy, and Modernity

Part I The Value of Freedom: 2 Is and Ought

3 Freedom as the Foundation of Morality

4 Freedom and the Essential Ends of Humankind

5 Kantian Perfectionism

6 Setting and Pursuing Ends

7 Freedom, Ends, and Duties in Vigilantius

Part II The Actuality of Freedom: 8 The Proof-Structure of the Groundwork and the Role of Section III

9 Proving Ourselves Free

10 Problems with Freedom

11 Natural and Rational Belief

Part III The Achievement of Freedom: 12 A Passion for Reason

13 The Obligation to be Virtuous

14 Kant on Moral Feelings

15 Examples of Moral Possibility

Conclusion

16 Kantian Communities

Bibliography

Index

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