Dostoevsky and Kant: Dialogues on Ethics

✍ Scribed by Evgenia Cherkasova

• Publisher: Rodopi
• Year: 2009
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 147
• Series: Value Inquiry Book Series 206
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

In this book, Evgenia Cherkasova brings the philosopher Kant and the novelist Dostoevsky together in conversations that probe why duty is central to our moral life. She shows that just as Dostoevsky is indebted to Kant, so Kant would profit from the deeply philosophical narratives of Dostoevsky, which engage the problem of evil and the claims of human community. She not only produces a novel reading of Dostoevsky, but also guides us to later, often neglected Kantian texts. This study is written with scholarly care, penetrating analysis, elegance of style, and moral urgency: Cherkasova writes with both mind and heart. Emily Grosholz, Professor of Philosophy, The Pennsylvania State University Social Philosophy (SP), in conjunction with the Center for Ethics, Peace and Social Justice, SUNY Cortland, explores theoretical and applied issues in contemporary social philosophy, drawing on a variety of philosophical traditions

✦ Table of Contents

Content: EDITORIAL FOREWORD
FOREWORD
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
INTRODUCTION
One: THE DEONTOLOGY OF THE HEART
Two: FREEDOM: ADVENTURES OF THE WILL
Three: EVIL: ADVENTURES OF SEDUCTIVE SPIRIT
Four: COMMUNITY
EPILOGUE
NOTES
BIBLIOGRAPHY
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
INDEX.

✦ Subjects

Dostoyevsky, Fyodor, -- 1821-1881 -- Ethics. Kant, Immanuel, -- 1724-1804 -- Ethics. Ethics. Philosophy. PHILOSOPHY -- Social. PHILOSOPHY -- Ethics & Moral Philosophy. Dostoyevsky, Fyodor, -- 1821-1881 Kant, Immanuel, -- 1724-1804