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The moral habitat / Barbara Herman.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Herman, Barbara, 1945- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Kant, Immanuel, 1724-1804.
- Kant, Immanuel.
- Ethics.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xii, 249 pages).
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford, England : Oxford University Press, [2021]
- Summary:
- The Moral Habitat offers a new and systematic interpretation of Kant's moral and political philosophy. Herman introduces the idea of a moral habitat to examines the dynamic system of duties that exists between individuals and civic institutions.
- Contents:
- Part 1. Three imperfect duties. Framing the question (what we can learn from imperfect duties)
- Gratitude: a system of duties
- Giving: impermissibility and wrongness
- Due care: the importance of motive
- Part 2. Kantian resources. Making the turn to Kant
- The Kantian system of duties
- Kantian imperfect duties
- Tracking value and extending duties
- Part 3. Living in the moral habitat. A dynamic system
- A right to housing
- Incompleteness and moral change
- Conclusion: Method and limits.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 0-19-191879-2
- 0-19-265019-X
- OCLC:
- 1276855887
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