Kant On Conscience

Author : Samuel Kahn
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108682073
Total Pages : 126 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Kant's Theory of Conscience written by Samuel Kahn and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2021-05-06 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The main body of this Element, about Kant's theory of conscience, is divided into two sections. The first focuses on exegesis of Kant's ethics. One of the overarching theses of this section of the Element is that, although many of Kant's claims about conscience are prima facie inconsistent, a close examination of context generally can dissolve apparent contradictions. The second section of the Element focuses on philosophical issues in Kantian ethics. One of the overarching theses of this section of the Element is that many positions traditionally associated with Kantian ethics, including the denial of moral luck, the nonaccidental rightness condition, and the guise of the objectively good, are at variance with Kant's ethics.

Author : Emre Kazim
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004340661
Total Pages : 217 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Kant on Conscience written by Emre Kazim and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2017-01-23 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Kant on Conscience Emre Kazim offers the first systematic treatment of Kant’s theory of conscience. Contrary to the scholarly consensus, Kazim argues that Kant’s various discussions of conscience are philosophically coherent aspects of the same unified thing (‘Unity Thesis’).

Author : Allen W. Wood
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108422349
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Kant and Religion written by Allen W. Wood and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2020-05-28 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores Kant's philosophy of religion and morality through his Religion within the Boundaries of Mere Reason.

Author : Guy Elgat
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0197605567
Total Pages : 337 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Being Guilty written by Guy Elgat and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2021-12-02 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "What can guilt, the painful sting of the bad conscience, tell us about who we are as human beings? Being Guilty seeks to answer this question through an examination of the views of Kant, Schelling, Schopenhauer, Paul Rée, Nietzsche, and Heidegger on guilt, freedom, responsibility, and conscience. The concept of guilt has not received sufficient attention from scholars of the history of German philosophy. Being Guilty addresses this lacuna and shows how the philosophers' arguments can be more deeply grasped once read in their historical context. A main claim of the book is that this history could be read as proceeding dialectically. Thus, in Kant, Schelling, and Schopenhauer, we find variations on the idea that guilt is justified because the human agent is a free cause of his or her own being-a causa sui-and thus responsible for his or her "ontological guilt." In contrast, in Rée and Nietzsche these ideas are rejected and the conclusion is reached that guilt is not justified, but is explainable psychologically. Finally, in Heidegger we find a synthesis of sorts, where the idea of causa sui is rejected, but ontological guilt is retained and guilt is seen as possible, because for Heidegger a condition of possibility of guilt is that we are ontologically guilty yet not causa sui. In the process of unfolding this trajectory, the various philosophers' views on these and many other issues are examined in detail"--

Author : Jens Timmermann
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139485326
Total Pages : 449 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Kant's 'Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals' written by Jens Timmermann and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2013-05-30 with total page 449 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In his Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals, Immanuel Kant portrays the supreme moral principle as an unconditional imperative that applies to all of us because we freely choose to impose upon ourselves a law of pure practical reason. Morality is revealed to be a matter of autonomy. Today, this approach to ethical theory is as perplexing, controversial and inspiring as it was in 1785, when the Groundwork was first published. The essays in this volume, by international Kant scholars and moral philosophers, discuss Kant's philosophical development and his rejection of earlier moral theories, the role of happiness and inclination in the Groundwork, Kant's moral metaphysics and theory of value, and his attempt to justify the categorical imperative as a principle of freedom. They reflect the approach of several schools of interpretation and illustrate the lively diversity of Kantian ethics today.

Author : Thomas E. Hill
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199252629
Total Pages : 428 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Human Welfare and Moral Worth written by Thomas E. Hill and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Volume II of the exclusive behind-the-scenes diaries of one of Ireland's most hard-working politicians ... Another hilarious account of local politics from Pat Shortt's legendary creation, the esteemed Councillor Maurice Hickey. The sequel to the popular I will in me Politics which was a runaway success - features a host of hilarious and recognisable characters.

Author : Immanuel Kant
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300128150
Total Pages : 295 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Groundwork for the Metaphysics of Morals written by Immanuel Kant and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2008-10-01 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Immanuel Kant’s Groundwork for the Metaphysics of Morals is one of the most important texts in the history of ethics. In it Kant searches for the supreme principle of morality and argues for a conception of the moral life that has made this work a continuing source of controversy and an object of reinterpretation for over two centuries. This new edition of Kant’s work provides a fresh translation that is uniquely faithful to the German original and more fully annotated than any previous translation. There are also four essays by well-known scholars that discuss Kant’s views and the philosophical issues raised by the Groundwork. J.B. Schneewind defends the continuing interest in Kantian ethics by examining its historical relation both to the ethical thought that preceded it and to its influence on the ethical theories that came after it; Marcia Baron sheds light on Kant’s famous views about moral motivation; and Shelly Kagan and Allen W. Wood advocate contrasting interpretations of Kantian ethics and its practical implications.

Author : Jeanine Grenberg
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107033586
Total Pages : 313 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Kant's Defense of Common Moral Experience written by Jeanine Grenberg and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2013-07-18 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book argues that everything important about Kant's moral philosophy emerges from common human experience of the conflict between happiness and morality.

Author : Immanuel Kant
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN 13 : 3368344595
Total Pages : 66 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Metaphysical Elements of Ethics written by Immanuel Kant and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2023-03-11 with total page 66 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reproduction of the original.

Author : Christine M. Korsgaard
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107047943
Total Pages : 294 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Sources of Normativity written by Christine M. Korsgaard and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1996-06-28 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ethical concepts are, or purport to be, normative. They make claims on us: they command, oblige, recommend, or guide. Or at least when we invoke them, we make claims on one another; but where does their authority over us - or ours over one another - come from? Christine Korsgaard identifies four accounts of the source of normativity that have been advocated by modern moral philosophers: voluntarism, realism, reflective endorsement, and the appeal to autonomy. She traces their history, showing how each developed in response to the prior one and comparing their early versions with those on the contemporary philosophical scene. Kant's theory that normativity springs from our own autonomy emerges as a synthesis of the other three, and Korsgaard concludes with her own version of the Kantian account. Her discussion is followed by commentary from G. A. Cohen, Raymond Geuss, Thomas Nagel, and Bernard Williams, and a reply by Korsgaard.