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Ends and Principles in Kant’s Moral Thought

Immanuel Kant (1724-1804) stands among the greatest thinkers of the Western world. There is hardly an area of thought, at least of philosophical thought, to which he did not make significant and lasting contributions. Particularly noteworthy are his writings on the foundations and limits of human kn...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Atwell, John E.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Dordrecht Springer Netherlands 1986, 1986
Edition:1st ed. 1986
Series:Nijhoff International Philosophy Series
Subjects:
Metaphysics
Philosophy, Modern
Early Modern Philosophy
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Collection: Springer Book Archives -2004 - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • I: Introduction: Background and the central problem
  • 1. Human knowledge and the knowable world
  • 2. Freedom: The chief condition of morality
  • 3. Types of moral theories
  • 4. Ends and principles: Inconsistencies?
  • II: Ends and the good will
  • 1. Conditioned goods and the unconditioned good
  • 2. Prima facie goods and the absolute good
  • 3. The uniqueness of a good will
  • 4. The irrelvance of ends
  • 5. A note on respect for the moral law
  • III: Maxims
  • 1. Three kinds of maxims: Incentival, actional, and dispositional
  • 2. Alternative accounts of Kantian Maxims
  • 3. Preliminary elucidation of actional maxims
  • 4. What maxims (and the adoption of maxims) are not
  • 5. On formulating maxims
  • IV: Universality and the categorical imperative
  • 1. The general nature of imperatives
  • 2. The principle of universality of nature
  • 3. Suicide and lying promises
  • 4. Neglect of talents and refusal to help others
  • V: Ends and moral obligation
  • 1. The problem of objecitve ends
  • 2. Man as the objective end-in-itself
  • 3. The alleged inconsistency
  • 4. End which are duties
  • 5. The highest good
  • VI: The principle of humanity
  • 1. Initial remarks
  • 2. Treatment of others as means
  • 3. Humanity in others as a positive end in itself: The duty of love for others
  • 4. Respect for humanity in one’s own person: Duties to oneself
  • VII: Autonomy of the Will
  • 1. The principle of autonomy of the will as a moral criterion
  • 2. Autonomy and the possibility of morals
  • 3. The kingdom of ends
  • 4. Responsibility for wrong acts and accountability for moral evil
  • VIII: Duties, rights, and ends in the political order
  • 1. The alleged right to revolt
  • 2. Kant’s paradoxical stand on revolution
  • 3. The alleged right to lie from benevolence
  • 4. The end of nature in human history
  • IX:Happiness and law-morality
  • 1. Morality and happiness
  • 2. Law-morality and atheism
  • 3. Conclusion

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