Duty, virtue and practical reason in Kant's metaphysics of morals / Vicente de Haro Romo ; translated into English by Erik Norvelle.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Haro Romo, Vicente de, author.

Contributor:

Norvelle, Erik, translator.

Series:

Reason and normativity ; Volume 11.

Reason and Normativity ; Volume 11 = Vernunft und Normativität ; Band 11 = Razón y Normatividad

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Kant, Immanuel, 1724-1804.

Kant, Immanuel.

Metaphysics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (342 p.)

Place of Publication:

Hildesheim, [Germany] ; Zurich, [Switzerland] ; New York, New York : Georg Olms Verlag, 2015.

Summary:

The "Metaphysical Principles of the Doctrine of Virtue" (Metaphysische Anfangsgrunde der Tugendlehre) is the second part of the "Metaphysics of Morals" (Metaphysik der Sitten), published by Kant in 1797. This monographic study comments Kants Tugendlehre as a refutation of the "formalist" vision of Kants Ethics. This late writing is shown as consistent with the moral philosophy already presented in the "Groundwork" and the second "Critique." The "Doctrine of Virtue" offers Kants application of the categorical imperative and acknowledges the conditions of moral motivation and, in general, of human agency. Kants derivation of duties of virtue (Tugendpflichten) is attentive to the fundamental characteristics of human nature, therefore it generates a system of ends that reason itself shows to be obligatory for the human faculty of choice. This book shows that Kants "Doctrine of Virtue" is worthy of being taken into a greater philosophical consideration.

Contents:

Cover ; CONTENTS ; PREFACE; ABBREVIATIONS; GENERAL INTRODUCTION; CHAPTER 1 ENDS, MAXIMS AND DUTIES; 1.1 Introduction; 1.2 The end as matter of the maxim; 1.3 The possibility of an end that is a duty; 1.4 Structure, function and generality of the maxims; 1.5 The distinction between will and faculty of choice (Wille-Willkür); CHAPTER 2 THE TRANSITION FROM THE CRITIQUE OF PRACTICAL REASON TO THE DOCTRINE OF VIRTUE; 2.1 Introduction; 2.2 From critique to system; 2.3 The supreme principle of virtue; 2.4 The three formulations of the categorical imperative and the principle of virtue

2.5 The principle of virtue as a synthetic a priori proposition2.5.1 The empirical content presupposed in the Doctrine of Virtue; 2.5.2 Anthroponomy, autonomy and autocracy; CHAPTER 3 THE DOCTRINE OF VIRTUE; 3.1 Introduction: virtue, vice and absence of virtue; 3.2 The necessity of virtue and its theoretical presuppositions; 3.2.1 Virtue in the face of radical evil; 3.2.2 The virtuous Gesinnung as necessary condition; 3.3 The aesthetic prenotions of the receptivity of duty; 3.3.1 Moral feeling; 3.3.2 The moral conscience; 3.3.3 Love for neighbor and philanthropy; 3.3.4 Respect for oneself

3.4 The moral prerequisites for virtue3.4.1 Moral mastery of oneself; 3.4.2 Moral apathy; 3.5 Principles of the pure Doctrine of Virtue; 3.5.1 The appropriate ground for each duty of virtue; 3.5.2 The critique of Aristotle: the virtuous mean versus the ethics of maxims; 3.5.3 The duties of virtue and the human capacities for their fulfillment; CHAPTER 4 THE DUTIES OF VIRTUE; 4.1 Introduction; 4.2 Duties to oneself; 4.2.1 The apparent antinomy of the duties to oneself; 4.2.2 Perfect duties to oneself; 4.2.3 Imperfect duties to oneself; 4.3 Duties to others; 4.3.1 To other human beings

4.3.2 With regard to non-human beings: the amphiboly of the moral concepts of reflectionCHAPTER 5 METHODOLOGY OF VIRTUE; 5.1 Introduction; 5.2 Ethical instruction: issues of exposition, dialogue, catechesis and casuistry; 5.3 Ethical asceticism; 5.4 The "Fragment of a Moral Catechism"; CONCLUSIONS; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX OF NAMES

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed March 15, 2016).

ISBN:

3-487-42152-6