Kant, Schopenhauer and Morality

Recovering the Categorical Imperative
2012. Auflage 2012
ISBN: 978-1-349-32848-2
Verlag: Palgrave MacMillan UK

Buch, Englisch, 452 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 621 g

Addressing the perennial question: why should we be moral? this book argues that we can only give a truly and morally satisfying answer to that question by radically reconfiguring our conception of the self and the way it relates to others.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Walker, M.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface and Acknowledgements Introduction: A Great Reversal? PART I: HOW KANT FAILED TO JUSTIFY HIS CATEGORICAL IMPERATIVE Justifying Morality Groundwork 3 – An Enigmatic Text The Second Critique Groundwork 2 - Rational Nature as an End-in-itself? PART II: HOW KANT SHOULD HAVE JUSTIFIED HIS CATEGORICAL IMPERATIVE Introduction: Reconstructing Groundwork 3 From Rational Agency to Freedom From Freedom to the Non-Phenomenal From Non-Phenomenality to Universality The Identity of Persons Recovering the Categorical Imperative Bibliography Index

Über Autor(innen)

MARK (aka Joss) WALKER has been a permanent lecturer at the University of Birmingham, UK since 1991, before which he taught at the American University in Cairo, Egypt, Thames Polytechnic, England, and the University of Keele, England.