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Understanding Kant's ethics

By: Publication details: Cambridge University Press 2016 LondonDescription: x, 235 pISBN:
  • 9781316615225
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 170.92 C4U6
Summary: Kant's ethical thought remains one of the most influential, yet notoriously challenging, systems in the history of philosophy. This volume provides a sympathetic but critical reconstruction of the main strands of Kant's ethics, focusing on the most commonly read of Kant's ethical works, the Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals. Part I outlines Kant's arguments in defense of his Categorical Imperative, as well as elaborating Kant's understanding of dignity and human freedom. Part II addresses the most common objections to Kant's ethics, including challenges to the Formula of Universal Law; Kant's controversial ethical stances on suicide, sex and marriage, and non-human animals; and the place of reason, sentiment, and happiness in Kant's ethics. For scholars and specialists alike, the volume offers a clear and accessible account of what Kantian morality both offers us and asks of us. Offers a comprehensive and systematic introduction to Kant's ethical thought, with a particular focus on his Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals Requires no prior knowledge of Kant's aims or methods and places his ethics within their contemporary philosophical context Outlines the main elements of Kant's theory before addressing the most common objections to it, providing a balanced picture of its strengths and weaknesses http://www.cambridge.org/gb/academic/subjects/philosophy/eighteenth-century-philosophy/understanding-kants-ethics#oTB4Df2q1HPEgvKr.99
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Kant's ethical thought remains one of the most influential, yet notoriously challenging, systems in the history of philosophy. This volume provides a sympathetic but critical reconstruction of the main strands of Kant's ethics, focusing on the most commonly read of Kant's ethical works, the Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals. Part I outlines Kant's arguments in defense of his Categorical Imperative, as well as elaborating Kant's understanding of dignity and human freedom. Part II addresses the most common objections to Kant's ethics, including challenges to the Formula of Universal Law; Kant's controversial ethical stances on suicide, sex and marriage, and non-human animals; and the place of reason, sentiment, and happiness in Kant's ethics. For scholars and specialists alike, the volume offers a clear and accessible account of what Kantian morality both offers us and asks of us.

Offers a comprehensive and systematic introduction to Kant's ethical thought, with a particular focus on his Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals
Requires no prior knowledge of Kant's aims or methods and places his ethics within their contemporary philosophical context
Outlines the main elements of Kant's theory before addressing the most common objections to it, providing a balanced picture of its strengths and weaknesses


http://www.cambridge.org/gb/academic/subjects/philosophy/eighteenth-century-philosophy/understanding-kants-ethics#oTB4Df2q1HPEgvKr.99

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