Kant's Metaphysics of the Will
Freedom, Reason, and the Moral Law
Seiten
2025
Cambridge University Press (Verlag)
978-1-009-57474-7 (ISBN)
Cambridge University Press (Verlag)
978-1-009-57474-7 (ISBN)
A groundbreaking study which explores how Kant's ethics intersect with metaphysical questions and demonstrates how Kant was concerned with two distinct deductions in Groundwork and in the second Critique, one successful, the other one impossible. This book will be valuable for scholars, graduate students, and advanced undergraduates in philosophy.
The idea of the individual as autonomous, capable of understanding through the use of reason what morality requires, and capable of doing the right thing because it is right, is one of the pillars of the Enlightenment, and Kant's ethics provides a robust account of the way in which the individual's capacity for moral insight, and freedom to make choices in accordance with such insight, are indispensable for any account of an authentic commitment to the objective good. Jacqueline Mariña situates Kant's ethical and metaethical arguments in the wider context of his claims in his critical works, convincingly rebutting recent claims that he did not succeed in showing that rational agents are necessarily bound by the moral law, and that he ended up with an empty moral dogmatism. Her book shows that the whole of Kant's critical works, both theoretical and practical, were much more coherent than many interpreters allow.
The idea of the individual as autonomous, capable of understanding through the use of reason what morality requires, and capable of doing the right thing because it is right, is one of the pillars of the Enlightenment, and Kant's ethics provides a robust account of the way in which the individual's capacity for moral insight, and freedom to make choices in accordance with such insight, are indispensable for any account of an authentic commitment to the objective good. Jacqueline Mariña situates Kant's ethical and metaethical arguments in the wider context of his claims in his critical works, convincingly rebutting recent claims that he did not succeed in showing that rational agents are necessarily bound by the moral law, and that he ended up with an empty moral dogmatism. Her book shows that the whole of Kant's critical works, both theoretical and practical, were much more coherent than many interpreters allow.
Jacqueline Mariña is Professor of Philosophy at Purdue University. She is the editor of The Cambridge Companion to Friedrich Schleiermacher (2005), and the author of Transformation of the Self in the Thought of Friedrich Schleiermacher (2008).
1. Introduction; 2. The power of reason; 3. The deep structure of the moral law; 4. The transfer argument; 5. Freedom and internalism; 6. The grounding argument; 7. Two deductions and the problem with freedom; 8. Epilogue; Bibliography.
| Erscheinungsdatum | 30.09.2025 |
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| Zusatzinfo | Worked examples or Exercises |
| Verlagsort | Cambridge |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 152 x 229 mm |
| Gewicht | 504 g |
| Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Ethik |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Geschichte der Philosophie | |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Philosophie der Neuzeit | |
| Recht / Steuern ► Allgemeines / Lexika | |
| Recht / Steuern ► EU / Internationales Recht | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-009-57474-4 / 1009574744 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-009-57474-7 / 9781009574747 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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