Kant's critique of practical reason : a philosophy of freedom / Otfried Höffe ; translated by Manfred Weltecke.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Höffe, Otfried, author.

Contributor:

Weltecke, Manfred, translator.

Series:

Political philosophy now.

Political Philosophy Now

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Knowledge, Theory of.

Kant, Immanuel, 1724-1804.

Kant, Immanuel.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (202 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Cardiff : University of Wales Press, [2023]

Summary:

In this book, the author systematically introduces one of the most important areas of Kant's philosophy and relates its basic ideas to the debates of today.

Contents:

Intro

Title Page

Copyright Page

Dedication

Contents

Preface

Abbreviations and Method of Citation

1 Introduction: Four Motivating Forces

1.1 Enlightenment

1.2 Critique in the Style of a Judicial Trial

1.3 Morality

1.4 Cosmopolitanism

Part I: Kant's Revolution of Moral Philosophy

2 Ethics as Practical Philosophy

2.1 Primacy of the Second Critique

2.2 Moral Interest

2.3 Pure Practical Reason

2.4 A Proof in Seven Steps

2.5 The Decisive Passage

3 Critique of the Principle of Happiness

3.1 Moralising in an Ivory Tower?

3.2 Mere Form

3.3 Two Ethical Theories of Happiness: Aristotle and Utilitarianism

4 The New Formula: the Categorical Imperative

4.1 Three Tasks

4.2 The Law of Nature as a Character of Law

4.3 The Example of the Deposit

4.4 An Ethics of Maxims

5 The Freedom of the Will and the Fact of Reason

5.1 Looking Back at the Third Antinomy

5.2 Free Will

5.3 The Moral Law Prior to Freedom

5.4 The Fact of Reason

5.5 Why be Moral: the Feeling of Respect

5.6 What can Modern Moral Philosophy Learn from Kant?

Part II: Kant's Provocations

6 Provocation 1: a Highest Good?

6.1 A Parallel to the First Critique?

6.2 From Duty to Hope: the Highest Good

6.3 Re-theologising and a Rest of Eudaimonism?

6.4 General (Quasi-)Dialectic of Pure Reason

6.5 The Postulates: God and Immortality

7 Provocation 2: Duty contra Desire? (Schiller)

7.1 Does Morality Require the Contrast with Desire?

7.2 What is it that Finds Unity in the Beautiful Soul?

7.3 Kant or Schiller?

8 Provocation 3: a 'Metaphysics' of Morals?

8.1 Kant as an Aristotelian

8.2 Aristotle's Ethics: Free of Metaphysics, yet Metaphysical

8.3 Kant's Ethics: Metaphysical, yet Free of Metaphysics

Part III: World Politics and World History.

9 Kant's Justice Theory of Peace

9.1 A Plethora of Innovations

9.2 'Royal Peoples' and a Royal Humanity

9.3 A Realistic Vision

10 A Cosmopolitan Philosophy of History

10.1 The Framework of Discussion

10.2 The Texts

10.3 Against Cyclopic Learnedness

10.4 The Engine: Antagonism

10.5 Thinking of Progress: Modest-Immodest

10.6 On the Epistemic Status

11 On the Guarantee of Perpetual Peace

11.1 A Quasi-Transcendental Deduction

11.2 The Solution: 'Nature the Great Artist'

11.3 Outer and Inner Nature

11.4 Constitutional, International and Cosmopolitan Right

11.5 Epistemic Status

Part IV: Religion, Education and the Final End

12 The Rational Limits of Religion

12.1 No Fourth Critique

12.2 The New Project

12.3 'Bare' Reason

12.4 Thematic and Methodological Innovations

12.5 The Main Topics

12.6 A Wealth of Interpretations

12.7 Interim Result

13 Philosophy of Education

13.1 Pedagogical Anthropology

13.2 Four Goals of Education

13.3 'The Child is supposed to … Learn to Work'

13.4 Result

14 Human Beings as the Final End

14.1 The Provocative Claim

14.2 Kant's Argument

14.3 On the Final End

15 A Look at the More Recent German Debate

15.1 The Textual Basis

15.2 A Kant Lexicon

15.3 Commentaries

15.4 Monographs

Afterword

Notes

Bibliography.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references.

Other Format:

Print version: Höffe, Otfried Kant’s Critique of Practical Reason

ISBN:

9781837720477

1837720479