Emotion, Reason and Action in Kant Maria de Lourdes.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lourdes, María de, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Kant, Immanuel, 1724-1804.

Kant, Immanuel.

Philosophy.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (1 p.)

Place of Publication:

London : Bloomsbury Academic, 2019.

Language Note:

English.

Summary:

This book explores how, in Kant's world view, our actions are informed, contextualized and dependent on the tension between emotion and reason. Arguing that affects and passions are illnesses of the mind, because both hinder the sovereignty of reason, Borges demonstrates Kant's recognition of the malleability of reason. To this end, the book explores the full range of negative and positive emotions in Kant's work, including self-control, compassion, sympathy, as well as anger. Kant's argument on the gendered nature of emotion, that women's innate morality disciplined men's tendency to behave in immoral ways, is also discussed. Finally, Borges shows how Kant's theory of emotion includes both physiological and cognitive aspects. Emotion, Reason and Action in Kant is an important new contribution to Kant Studies, suitable for students of Kant, ethics, and moral psychology.

Contents:

Action, reason, and causes in Kant

Can we act without feelings? Respect, sympathy and other forms of love

A place for affects and passion in the Kantian system

What can Kant teach us about emotions?

Physiology and the controlling of affects in Kant's philosophy

Virtue as a cure for affects and passions

The beautiful and the good: refinement as an introduction to morality

Women and emotion

Evil and passion

An emotional Kant?

Notes:

CC BY

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781350078376

1350078379

Access Restriction:

Open access Unrestricted online access