Paul Guyer

Kant's Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals

Critical Essays

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Kant's Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals is one of the most important works in modern moral philosophy. This collection of essays, the first of its kind in nearly thirty years, introduces the reader to some of the most important studies of the book from the past two decades, arranged in the form of a collective commentary.

Produktdetails

• Critical Essays on the Classics Series
• Verlag: Rowman & Littlefield
• Seitenzahl: 416
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. Dezember 1997
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 24mm
• Gewicht: 592g
• ISBN-13: 9780847686292
• ISBN-10: 0847686299
• Artikelnr.: 21534075

Autorenporträt

Paul Guyer is the Jonathan Nelson Professor of Humanities and Philosophy at Brown University, USA. He is the author of eleven books on the philosophy of Kant, most recently Virtues of Freedom (2016) and Kant on the Rationality of Morality (2019), as well as of A History of Modern Aesthetics in three volumes (2014).

Inhaltsangabe

Part 1 Historical Background
Chapter 2 Natural Law/ Skepticism/ and Methods of Ethics
Part 3 The Good Will and the Categorical Imperative (Groundwork I)
Chapter 4 The Argument of Kant's Groundwork
Chapter 5 Kant's Analysis of Obligation: The Argument of Groundwork I
Chapter 6 Kant's Good Will and Our Good Nature
Part 7 The Categorical Imperative and Its Formulations (Groundwork II)
Chapter 8 Consistency in Action
Chapter 9 Mutual Aid and Respect for Persons
Chapter 10 Humanity as End in Itself
Chapter 11 The Categorical Imperative
Chapter 12 The Possibility of the Categorical Imperative
Part 13 The Categorical Imperative and Freesom of the Will (Groundwork III)
Chapter 14 Kant's Argument for the Rationality of Moral Conduct
Chapter 15 Morality and Freedom: Kant's Reciprocity Thesis
Chapter 16 The Deduction of the Moral Law: The Reasons for the Obscurity of
the Final Section of Kant's Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals