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Understanding moral obligation : Kant, Hegel, Kierkegaard /
"In 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 challeng...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2012.
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| Colección: | Modern European philosophy.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | "In 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."--Jacket |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xiv, 277 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 255-272) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780511997747 0511997744 9781139224451 113922445X 9781139221023 1139221027 1139209833 9781139209830 1107229030 9781107229037 1280485175 9781280485176 9786613580153 6613580155 1139222740 9781139222747 1139217941 9781139217941 1139214853 9781139214858 |