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Author: Stefano Bacin
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2019
Total Pages: 239
ISBN-13: 1107182859
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA thorough study of why Kant developed the concept of autonomy, one of his central legacies for contemporary moral thought.
Author: Oliver Sensen
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2013
Total Pages: 315
ISBN-13: 1107004861
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book explores the central importance Kant's concept of autonomy for contemporary moral thought and modern philosophy.
Author: Eric Watkins
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2018
Total Pages: 255
ISBN-13: 110718245X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis volume investigates Kant's conception of what a human being is and how a human being can act autonomously. Scholars explore fundamental topics such as freedom, autonomy, and personhood from both practical and theoretical perspectives, and consider their importance within Kant's wider system of philosophy.
Author: Richard Dean
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2006-05-11
Total Pages: 281
ISBN-13: 0199285721
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe humanity formulation of Kant's Categorical Imperative demands that we treat humanity as an end in itself. Because this principle resonates with currently influential ideals of human rights and dignity, contemporary readers often find it compelling, even if the rest of Kant's moral philosophy leaves them cold. Moreover, some prominent specialists in Kant's ethics have recently turned to the humanity formulation as the most theoretically central and promising principle of Kant'sethics. Nevertheless, it has received less attention than many other aspects of Kant's ethics. Richard Dean offers the most sustained and systematic examination of the humanity formulation to date. He presents an original analysis of what it means to treat humanity as an end in itself, and examinesthe implications both for Kant scholarship and for practical guidance on specific moral issues.
Author: Andrews Reath
Publisher: Oxford University Press on Demand
Published: 2006
Total Pages: 277
ISBN-13: 9780199288823
DOWNLOAD EBOOKReath presents a selection of his essays on various features of Kant's moral philosophy and moral theory, with particular emphasis on his conception of rational agency and autonomy. He explores Kant's belief that objective moral requrirements are based on principles we choose for ourselves.
Author: Jerome B. Schneewind
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1998
Total Pages: 652
ISBN-13: 9780521479387
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis remarkable book is the most comprehensive study ever written of the history of moral philosophy in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Its aim is to set Kant's still influential ethics in its historical context by showing in detail what the central questions in moral philosophy were for him and how he arrived at his own distinctive ethical views. The book is organised into four main sections, each exploring moral philosophy by discussing the work of many influential philosophers of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. In an epilogue the author discusses Kant's view of his own historicity, and of the aims of moral philosophy. In its range, in its analyses of many philosophers not discussed elsewhere, and in revealing the subtle interweaving of religious and political thought with moral philosophy, this is an unprecedented account of the evolution of Kant's ethics.
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.
Author: Robert Stern
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2011-12-15
Total Pages: 293
ISBN-13: 1139505017
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn many histories of modern ethics, Kant is supposed to have ushered in an anti-realist or constructivist turn by holding that unless we ourselves 'author' or lay down moral norms and values for ourselves, our autonomy as agents will be threatened. In this book, Robert Stern challenges the cogency of this 'argument from autonomy', and claims that Kant never subscribed to it. Rather, it is not value realism but the apparent obligatoriness of morality that really poses a challenge to our autonomy: how can this be accounted for without taking away our freedom? The debate the book focuses on therefore concerns whether this obligatoriness should be located in ourselves (Kant), in others (Hegel) or in God (Kierkegaard). Stern traces the historical dialectic that drove the development of these respective theories, and clearly and sympathetically considers their merits and disadvantages; he concludes by arguing that the choice between them remains open.
Author: James Stacey Taylor
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2005-01-10
Total Pages: 370
ISBN-13: 9781139442718
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAutonomy has recently become one of the central concepts in contemporary moral philosophy and has generated much debate over its nature and value. This 2005 volume brings together essays that address the theoretical foundations of the concept of autonomy, as well as essays that investigate the relationship between autonomy and moral responsibility, freedom, political philosophy, and medical ethics. Written by some of the most prominent philosophers working in these areas, this book represents research on the nature and value of autonomy that will be essential reading for a broad swathe of philosophers as well as many psychologists.
Author: Susan Meld Shell
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 2009-08-30
Total Pages: 448
ISBN-13: 9780674054608
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAutonomy for Kant is not just a synonym for the capacity to choose, whether simple or deliberative. It is what the word literally implies: the imposition of a law on one's own authority and out of one's own rational resources. In Kant and the Limits of Autonomy, Shell explores the limits of Kantian autonomy--both the force of its claims and the complications to which they give rise. Through a careful examination of major and minor works, Shell argues for the importance of attending to the difficulty inherent in autonomy and to the related resistance that in Kant's view autonomy necessarily provokes in us. Such attention yields new access to Kant's famous, and famously puzzling, Groundlaying of the Metaphysics of Morals. It also provides for a richer and more unified account of Kant's later political and moral works; and it highlights the pertinence of some significant but neglected early writings, including the recently published Lectures on Anthropology. Kant and the Limits of Autonomy is both a rigorous, philosophically and historically informed study of Kantian autonomy and an extended meditation on the foundation and limits of modern liberalism.
