Dieter Schönecker, Allen W. Wood

Immanuel Kant's Groundwork for the Metaphysics of Morals

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

A defining work of moral philosophy, Groundwork for the Metaphysics of Morals has been highly influential and famously difficult. Dieter Schönecker and Allen Wood make clear the ways this work forms the basis of our modern moral outlook and how moral law relates to freedom and free will within Kant's overall philosophy.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: De Gruyter
• Seitenzahl: 248
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. Januar 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 246mm x 160mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 499g
• ISBN-13: 9780674430136
• ISBN-10: 0674430131
• Artikelnr.: 40751576

Autorenporträt

Dieter Schönecker and Allen W. Wood

Inhaltsangabe

Contents Preface 1.1 The Task, Method, and Transitions of the Groundwork 1.2 The Concept and Idea of a Metaphysics of Morals 1.3 Summary 2.1 The Structure and Argument of GMS I 2.2.1 The Conditioned Worth of Gifts of Nature 2.2.2 The Conditioned Worth of Gifts of Fortune 2.2.3 The Efficacy and Effects of the Good Will 2.2.4 The Teleological Argument 2.3 Duty and Respect 2.3.1 From the Concept of the Good Will to the Concept of Duty 2.3.2 The Three Propositions Regarding Duty 2.4 The Derivation of the Categorical Imperative 2.5 Summary 3.1 The Structure and Basic Argument of GMS II 3.2 The Practical Faculty of Reason and the Division of Imperatives 3.2.1 Imperatives as Objective Rational Principles for Beings That Are at Once Sensuous and Rational 3.2.2 Categorical and Hypothetical Imperatives 3.3 The Possibility of Hypothetical Imperatives 3.4 The Formulations of the Categorical Imperative and Kant's Examples 3.4.1 Enumerating the Various Formulas 3.4.2 The Derivation of Particular Duties: Kant's Formulas and His Examples 3.4.3 The Categorical Imperative and the Relationship of Its Formulas to One Another 3.5 Summary 4.1 The Structure and Task of GMS III 4.2.1 The Thesis of Analyticity 4.2.2 The Presupposition of Freedom 4.3 The Deduction of the Categorical Imperative 4.4 Summary 5.1 Kant 5.2 Secondary Literature Index

Rezensionen

Dieter Schönecker and Allen W. Wood highlight in this book Kant's most important and moving ideas, above all his idea of the incomparable worth of human autonomy, while pulling no punches about the shortcomings of Kant's arguments. They carefully explicate and disambiguate Kant's central concepts and discuss in detail the most notorious problems of interpretation. Kant's little book is dense and obscure at some of the most crucial points. Students always need a commentary, and this one is very welcome indeed.
-- Paul Guyer, Brown University