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Kant on practical life : from duty to history.
Offers a comprehensive account of Kant's practical philosophy that highlights the unity across its disparate themes.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge :
Cambridge University Press,
2013.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; Kant on Practical Life; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; Introduction; Rationale; The structure of the book; On reason: preliminaries; The unconditioned: taking orientation from theoretical reason; The need of reason; The unconditioned: freedom and world; Transition to practical reason; Chapter One Freedom of the self as such: The good will, duty, and moral feeling; The good will; The goodness of the good will; The form of the good will: unconditioned causality; Forms of finitude in the will; Motivational or subjective finitude: duty.
- The unbidden: inclinations and moral lawMoral feeling: finitude and the effect of the moral law; On moral feeling; The sublime; The unrepresentable in the moral law; Freedom as responsiveness: interest; Chapter Two Freedom of the self over time: Virtue; The necessity of virtue; Overcoming contingency: from the good will to virtue; The limits of virtue: radical evil; What is evil?; Radical evil in human nature; Engaging our limits: the struggle of virtue; Struggling with inclinations; Struggling against evil; Attaining virtue: intractable finitude; Immortality; Grace.
- Chapter Three Freedom of the self and the moral world: The highest goodEnds; The highest good; The form of the highest good: totality; On happiness and its problems; The highest good as a moral world; Community of wills; The moral law and the moral world; Formulations of the moral law and the moral world; The categorical imperative; The form of the universal law of nature: virtue; Matter: humanity as an end and happiness; Complete determination: the kingdom of ends as a moral world; The highest good and the culmination of practical life.
- Chapter Four Enacting the moral world: Founding and promoting a civil conditionExternalization and the duty to form a state; Property: the use of things; Securing property: from finitude to freedom; Republicanism and citizenship; Citizenship; Speech; Chapter Five Enacting the moral world: Joining the ethical community; Ethical community as moral world; God's law and the moral law as divine command; Hope; Chapter Six Human finitude undone: Culture and history; Culture; The removal of nature: unsociability; The solicitation of reason: refusal; Culture in context; History; Peace within.
- Peace withoutAchieving peace and the moral turn at the end of history; Revisiting the good will; Conclusion; Bibliography; Kant's works; German edition; English editions; Other works; Index.