β Scribed by Robert B. Louden
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In Kant's Human Being, Robert B. Louden continues and deepens avenues of research first initiated in his highly acclaimed book, Kant's Impure Ethics. Drawing on a wide variety of both published and unpublished works spanning all periods of Kant's extensive writing career, Louden here focuses on Kant's under-appreciated empirical work on human nature, with particular attention to the connections between this body of work and his much-discussed ethical theory. Kant repeatedly claimed that the question, "What is the human being" is philosophy's most fundamental question, one that encompasses all others. Louden analyzes and evaluates Kant's own answer to his question, showing how it differs from other accounts of human nature. This collection of twelve essays is divided into three parts. In Part One (Human Virtues), Louden explores the nature and role of virtue in Kant's ethical theory, showing how the conception of human nature behind Kant's virtue theory results in a virtue ethics that is decidedly different from more familiar Aristotelian virtue ethics programs. In Part Two (Ethics and Anthropology), he uncovers the dominant moral message in Kant's anthropological investigations, drawing new connections between Kant's work on human nature and his ethics. Finally, in Part Three (Extensions of Anthropology), Louden explores specific aspects of Kant's theory of human nature developed outside of his anthropology lectures, in his works on religion, geography, education ,and aesthetics, and shows how these writings substantially amplify his account of human beings.Kant's Human Being offers a detailed and multifaceted investigation of the question that Kant held to be the most important of all, and will be of interest not only to philosophers but also to all who are concerned with the study of human nature.
Cover......Page 1
Contents......Page 12
Note on Citations and Translations......Page 14
Introduction......Page 18
PART ONE: HUMAN VIRTUES......Page 30
1. Kantβs Virtue Ethics......Page 32
2. Moral Strength: Virtue as a Duty to Oneself......Page 45
3. Kantian Moral Humility: Between Aristotle and Paul......Page 54
4. βFirm as a Rock in Her Own Principlesβ: (But Not Necessarily a Kantian)......Page 67
PART TWO: ANTHROPOLOGY AND ETHICS......Page 76
5. The Second Part of Morals......Page 78
6. Applying Kantβs Ethics: The Role of Anthropology......Page 94
7. Anthropology from a Kantian Point of View: Toward a Cosmopolitan Conception of Human Nature......Page 107
8. Making the Law Visible: The Role of Examples in Kantβs Ethics......Page 120
PART THREE: EXTENSIONS OF ANTHROPOLOGY......Page 134
9. Evil Everywhere: The Ordinariness of Kantian Radical Evil......Page 136
10. βThe Play of Natureβ: Human Beings in Kantβs Geography......Page 150
11. Becoming Human: Kant and the Philosophy of Education......Page 165
12. National Character via the Beautiful and Sublime?......Page 179
Notes......Page 194
Bibliography......Page 232
C......Page 246
H......Page 247
M......Page 248
P......Page 249
W......Page 250
Z......Page 251
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