Kantian Ethics and the Attention Economy
Author: Timothy Aylsworth
Publisher: Springer Nature
Published:
Total Pages: 284
ISBN-13: 3031456386
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Kantian Ethics and the Attention Economy
Author: Timothy Aylsworth
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2024-03-18
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9783031456374
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn this open access book, Timothy Aylsworth and Clinton Castro draw on the deep well of Kantian ethics to argue that we have moral duties, both to ourselves and to others, to protect our autonomy from the threat posed by the problematic use of technology. The problematic use of technologies like smartphones threatens our autonomy in a variety of ways, and critics have only begun to appreciate the vast scope of this problem. In the last decade, we have seen a flurry of books making “self-help” arguments about how we could live happier, more fulfilling lives if we were less addicted to our phones. But none of these authors see this issue as one involving a moral duty to protect our autonomy.
Kantian Ethics and Economics
Author: Mark White
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Published: 2011-05-17
Total Pages: 283
ISBN-13: 0804768943
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book integrates the moral philosophy of Immanuel Kant—particularly the concepts of autonomy, dignity, and character—into economic theory, enriching models of individual choice and policymaking, while contributing to our understanding of how the economic individual fits into society.
Self-Improvement
Author: Robert N. Johnson
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Published: 2011-10-06
Total Pages: 192
ISBN-13: 0191618969
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIs there any moral obligation to improve oneself, to foster and develop various capacities in oneself? From a broadly Kantian point of view, Self-Improvement defends the view that there is such an obligation and that it is an obligation that each person owes to him or herself. The defence addresses a range of arguments philosophers have mobilized against this idea, including the argument that it is impossible to owe anything to yourself, and the view that an obligation to improve onself is overly 'moralistic'. Robert N. Johnson argues against Kantian universalization arguments for the duty of self-improvement, as well as arguments that bottom out in a supposed value humanity has. At the same time, he defends a position based on the notion that self- and other-respecting agents would, under the right circumstances, accept the principle of self-improvement and would leave it up to each to be the person to whom this duty is owed.
Kant's Theory of Virtue
Author: Anne Margaret Baxley
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2010-11-11
Total Pages: 207
ISBN-13: 1139493167
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAnne Margaret Baxley offers a systematic interpretation of Kant's theory of virtue, whose most distinctive features have not been properly understood. She explores the rich moral psychology in Kant's later and less widely read works on ethics, and argues that the key to understanding his account of virtue is the concept of autocracy, a form of moral self-government in which reason rules over sensibility. Although certain aspects of Kant's theory bear comparison to more familiar Aristotelian claims about virtue, Baxley contends that its most important aspects combine to produce something different - a distinctively modern, egalitarian conception of virtue which is an important and overlooked alternative to the more traditional Greek views which have dominated contemporary virtue ethics.
Algorithms and Autonomy
Author: Alan Rubel
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2021-05-20
Total Pages: 217
ISBN-13: 1108841813
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book examines how algorithms in criminal justice, education, housing, elections and beyond affect autonomy, freedom, and democracy. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.
Business Ethics: A Kantian Perspective
Author: Norman E. Bowie
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2017-02-16
Total Pages: 235
ISBN-13: 110712090X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book applies the latest studies on Kantian ethics to show how a business can maintain economic success and moral integrity.
Emotion, Reason, and Action in Kant
Author: Maria Borges
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Published: 2019-04-18
Total Pages: 221
ISBN-13: 1350078387
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book is open access and available on www.bloomsburycollections.com. It is funded by Knowledge Unlatched. Though Kant never used the word 'emotion' in his writings, it is of vital significance to understanding his philosophy. This book offers a captivating argument for reading Kant considering the importance of emotion, taking into account its many manifestations in his work including affect and passion. Emotion, Reason, and Action in Kant explores how, in Kant's world view, our actions are informed, contextualized and dependent on the tension between emotion and reason. On the one hand, there are positive moral emotions that can and should be cultivated. On the other hand, affects and passions are considered illnesses of the mind, in that they lead to the weakness of the will, in the case of affects, and evil, in the case of passions. Seeing the role of these emotions enriches our understanding of Kant's moral theory. Exploring the full range of negative and positive emotions in Kant's work, including anger, compassion and sympathy, as well as moral feeling, Borges shows how Kant's theory of emotion includes both physiological and cognitive aspects. This is an important new contribution to Kant Studies, suitable for students of Kant, ethics, and moral psychology.
Ethics of the Real
Author: Alenka Zupančič
Publisher: Verso
Published: 2000
Total Pages: 288
ISBN-13: 9781859847244
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe idea of Kantian ethics is both simple and revolutionary: it proposes a moral law independent of any notion of a pre-establishment of fear. In attempting to interpret sucha a revcolutionary proposition in a more 'humane' light, and to turn Kant into our contemporary—someone who can help us with our own ethical dilemmas—many Kantian scholars have glossed over its apparent paradoxes and impossible claims. This book is concerned with doing exactly the opposite. Kant, thank God, is not our contemporary; he stands against the grain of our times. Lacan on the face of it appears to be the very antithesis of Kant—the wild theorist of psychoanalysis compared to the sober Enlightenment figure. His concept of the Real, however, provides perhaps the most useful backdrop to this new interpretation of Kantian ethics. Constantly juxtaposing her readings of the two philosophers, Alenka Zupancic summons up and 'ethics of the Real', and clears the ground for a radical restoration of the disruptive element in ethics.
An Introduction to Kant's Ethics
Author: Roger J. Sullivan
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1994-07-29
Total Pages: 196
ISBN-13: 9780521467698
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis is the most up-to-date, brief and accessible introduction to Kant's ethics available. It approaches the moral theory via the political philosophy, thus allowing the reader to appreciate why Kant argued that the legal structure for any civil society must have a moral basis. This approach also explains why Kant thought that our basic moral norms should serve as laws of conduct for everyone. The volume also includes a detailed commentary on Foundations of the Metaphysics of Morals, Kant's most widely studied work of moral philosophy.
