Kant on mind, action, and ethics / Julian Wuerth.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Wuerth, Julian, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Kant, Immanuel, 1724-1804.

Kant, Immanuel.

Philosophy of mind.

Act (Philosophy).

Ethics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xvi, 349 pages)

Other Title:

Kant on mind, action, & ethics

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Julian Wuerth offers a radically new interpretation of major themes in Kant's philosophy. He explores Kant's ontology of the mind, his transcendental idealism, his account of the mind's powers, and his theory of action, and goes on to develop an original, moral realist account of Kant's ethics.

Contents:

Kant on mind. Kant and the soul as simple substance, pre-Critique ; Kant's immediatism, pre-Critique ; Transcendental idealism and immediatism, pre-Critique ; Kant's pre-Critique rejection of rational psychologists' views on substance: Background on the first analogy, the amphiboly, and the first paralogism ; Kant's substantial soul: The paralogisms and beyond

Kant on action and ethics. Kant's map of the mind ; Sedgwick, good freedom, and the Wille/Willkür distinction before, in, and after the Groundwork ; Korsgaard's intellectualized first-person account of Kant's practical agent ; Kant's moral realism and Korsgaard's constructivism.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on September 2, 2014).

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

Other Format:

Print version

ISBN:

0-19-176090-0

OCLC:

891146471