Silber Kant's Ethics

The Good, Freedom, and the Will
1. Auflage 2012
ISBN: 978-1-61451-074-1
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 374 Seiten

Kant’s Ethics: The Good, Freedom, and the Will is a systematic examination of Kant’s ethics that recognizes the central importance of the good in relation to duty as forming a unified whole, in accordance with Kant’s intent. The Enlightenment, by undermining the religious foundations of morality, prompted Kant to offer a new foundation for ethics based not on religion but on reason. The first chapter provides the context of Kant’s ethics and explains the criteria by which to select views that are authoritative among Kant’s variety of statements. With these criteria for interpretation in hand, the book attempts a systematic account of Kant’s ethics as he developed it over a period of more than 40 years. Kant’s Ethics includes an analysis of the tripartite nature of the will in its dynamic unity and the relation of the will to the good. An appendix, “Kant at Auschwitz,” briefly considers a serious problem for Kant’s political philosophy that follows from his insistence on obeying civil authority.

Zielgruppe

All those interested in the philosophy of Kant, in particular his ethics and political philosophy, as well as students and scholars of the philosophy of law

Autoren/Hrsg.

Silber, John

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Ethik, Moralphilosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Geschichte der Westlichen Philosophie Westliche Philosophie: Transzendentalphilosophie, Kritizismus
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Geschichte der Westlichen Philosophie Westliche Philosophie: 18. Jahrhundert

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1;Preface;7
2;Foreword;9
3;Introduction;15
4;Chapter I: The Context Of Kant’s Ethics;25
4.1;1 Kant’s Conception Of Philosophy;25
4.2;2 Kant’s Philosophical Method: Logical and Transcendental;34
4.3;3 The Chief Characteristics of Kant’s Critical Thought;47
5;Chapter II: The Copernican Revolution In Ethics: The Good Reexamined;60
5.1;1 The Primacy of the Moral Law in the Determination of the Good;60
5.2;2 The Heterogeneity of the Good;68
5.3;3 The Good as the Object of the Moral Law;75
6;Chapter III: Kant’s Analysis Of The Will;78
6.1;1 The Theoretical Background and Importance of the Religion;78
6.2;2 Freedom;83
6.3;3 The Human Will;92
6.4;4 The Contribution of the Religion to Ethics;128
7;Chapter IV: The Moral Good And The Natural Good;130
7.1;1 Terminological Problems;130
7.2;2 The Intrinsic Goodness of Both the Natural Good and the Moral Good;133
7.3;3 Particular Natural Goods and the Natural Good;143
7.4;4 Particular Natural Goods as Extrinsic, Relational Goods;148
7.5;5 The Qualification of the Natural Good by the Moral Good;155
7.6;6 Summary;162
8;Chapter V: The Highest Good As The Material Object Of Moral Volition;166
8.1;1 The Centrality of the Highest Good in Kant’s Ethics;166
8.2;2 Perfection (the Moral Good) as a Component of the Highest Good;170
8.3;3 Happiness (the Natural Good) as a Component of the Highest Good;178
8.4;4 The Unity of Perfection and Happiness in the Highest Good;181
9;Chapter VI: The Highest Good As Immanent And As Transcendent;187
9.1;1 The Highest Good as the Canon of Pure Reason;187
9.2;2 The Immanence of the Highest Good;198
9.3;3 The Transcendence of the Highest Good;206
9.4;4 The Constitutive Immanence and Regulative Transcendence of the Highest Good;211
10;Chapter VII: The Moral Task: The Embodiment Of The Highest Good;217
10.1;1 The Moral Task as the Creation of Moral Schemata;217
10.2;2 The Symbolic Schematism of the Highest Good;225
11;Chapter VIII: The Role Of Judgment In Kant’s Procedural Formalism;239
11.1;1 The Procedure of Judgment in All Employments;239
11.2;2 The Procedures of Judgment in Ethics;245
11.3;3 The Procedural Formalism of Kant’s Ethics;260
12;Chapter IX: The Role Of Judgment In The Embodiment Of The Highest Good;275
12.1;1 Moral Feeling;275
12.2;2 The Cultivation of Moral Feeling;286
13;Chapter X: Summary And Assessment;295
13.1;1 Kant’s Attempt to Reconcile the Christian and Scientific Worldviews;295
13.2;2 The Heterogeneity of the Good;296
13.3;3 The Clarification of the Concept of Freedom;297
13.4;4 Kant’s Response to Diderot’s Demand for Moral Guidance;301
13.5;5 Kant’s Absolute Concept of Freedom;304
13.6;6 Moral Incentive in Kant’s Ethics;312
13.7;7 Ethical Orthodoxy in Religious Education;321
14;Appendix: Kant at Auschwitz;328
14.1;1 The Holocaust;328
14.2;2 Eichmann’s Claim to be a Kantian;331
14.3;3 Absolute Obedience in Kant’s Ethics;337
14.4;4 Devilishness as an Actual Mode of Freedom;343
14.5;5 Alternative Explanations of Moral Responsibility;349
15;Kant’s Works And Their Abbreviations;357
15.1;Other translations of Kant’s works;359
16;Bibliography;360
17;Acknowledgements;364
18;Index;365

Über Autor(innen)

John Silber, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.