Kant's theory of freedom / Henry E. Allison.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Allison, Henry E.

Contributor:

Cambridge University Press.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Kant, Immanuel, 1724-1804.

Kant, Immanuel.

Free will and determinism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xii, 304 pages.)

Place of Publication:

Cambridge [England] ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1990.

System Details:

text file

Summary:

In his new book the eminent Kant scholar Henry Allison provides an innovative and comprehensive interpretation of Kant's concept of freedom. The author analyzes the concept and discusses the role it plays in Kant's moral philosophy and psychology. He also considers in full detail the critical literature on the subject from Kant's own time to the present day. In the first part Professor Allison argues that at the center of the Critique of Pure Reason there is the foundation for a coherent general theory of rational agency. The second part employs this account of rational agency as a key to understanding Kant's concept of moral agency and associated moral psychology. The third part focuses on Kant's attempt to ground both moral law and freedom in the Groundwork and the Critique of Practical Reason. This is a major contribution to the interpretation of Kant which will be of special interest to scholars and graduate students of Kant's moral theory.

Contents:

The third antinomy

Empirical and intelligible character

Practical and transcendental freedom

Two alternative interpretations

Rational agency and autonomy

Duty, inclination, and respect

Wille, Willkur, and Gesinnung

Radical evil

Virtue and holiness

The classical objections

The reciprocity thesis

The deduction in Groundwork III

The fact of reason and the deduction of freedom.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 286-293) and index.

Electronic reproduction. Cambridge Available via World Wide Web.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781139172295

1139172298

Publisher Number:

99987466547

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