Understanding Kant's Ethics

Michael Cholbi (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

242 Seiten

2016
Cambridge University Press (Verlag)
978-1-316-61522-5 (ISBN)

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This book presents Kant's notoriously difficult, and often controversial, theory of ethics systematically and comprehensively, focusing on his Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals. Accessible to non-specialists and invaluable for all students of moral philosophy, the volume outlines Kant's ethical theory and addresses the most common objections to it.

Kant's ethical thought remains one of the most influential, yet notoriously challenging, systems in the history of philosophy. This volume provides a sympathetic but critical reconstruction of the main strands of Kant's ethics, focusing on the most commonly read of Kant's ethical works, the Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals. Part I outlines Kant's arguments in defense of his Categorical Imperative, as well as elaborating Kant's understanding of dignity and human freedom. Part II addresses the most common objections to Kant's ethics, including challenges to the Formula of Universal Law; Kant's controversial ethical stances on suicide, sex and marriage, and non-human animals; and the place of reason, sentiment, and happiness in Kant's ethics. For scholars and specialists alike, the volume offers a clear and accessible account of what Kantian morality both offers us and asks of us.

Michael Cholbi is Professor of Philosophy at California State Polytechnic University, Pomona. He is the author of Suicide: The Philosophical Dimensions (2011), as well as the editor of New Directions in the Ethics of Assisted Suicide and Euthanasia (2015) and Immortality and the Philosophy of Death (2015).

Preface; Introduction; Part I: 1. Kant's pursuit of the supreme principle of morality; 2. The Categorical Imperative and the Kantian theory of value, part I; 3. The Categorical Imperative and the Kantian theory of value, part II; 4. Dignity; 5. Freedom, reason, and the possibility of the Categorical Imperative; Part II: 6. Objections to the Formula of Universal Law; 7. Three problems in Kant's practical ethics; 8. Reason and sentiment: Kantian ethics in a good human life; Conclusion.

Erscheinungsdatum	03.11.2016
Zusatzinfo	8 Tables, black and white
Verlagsort	Cambridge
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 228 mm
Gewicht	360 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Ethik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Geschichte der Philosophie
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Philosophie der Neuzeit
ISBN-10	1-316-61522-7 / 1316615227
ISBN-13	978-1-316-61522-5 / 9781316615225
Zustand	Neuware