This volume brings to English readers the finest postwar German-language scholarship on Kant's moral and legal philosophy. Examining Kant's relation to predecessors such as Hutcheson, Wolff, and Baumgarten, it clarifies the central issues in each of Kant's major works in practical philosophy, includ
Kantβs Moral Philosophy
β Scribed by H. B. Acton (auth.)
- Publisher
- Macmillan Education UK
- Year
- 1970
- Tongue
- English
- Leaves
- 78
- Series
- New Studies in Ethics
- Category
- Library
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β¦ Table of Contents
Front Matter....Pages N2-vi
Introduction: Kant and the Enlightenment....Pages 1-4
Some Ethical Bearings of Kantβs Critique of Pure Reason....Pages 5-8
Kantβs Discussion of the Ordinary Moral Consciousness....Pages 9-15
Hypothetical Imperatives and the Categorical Imperative....Pages 16-20
The Supreme Principle of Morality: Universal Law....Pages 21-29
The Moral Motive....Pages 30-34
The Principle of Autonomy and other Formulations of the Categorical Imperative....Pages 35-44
Freedom of the Will and Morality....Pages 45-52
God and Immortality....Pages 53-59
Conclusion....Pages 60-65
Back Matter....Pages 66-71
β¦ Subjects
Ethics; Moral Philosophy
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