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Kant's lectures on ethics: a critical guide

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: New York Cambridge University Press 2015Description: xix, 289 p. With indexISBN:
  • 9781108454155
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 170 K2
Summary: This is the first book devoted to an examination of Kant's lectures on ethics, which provide a unique and revealing perspective on the development of his views. In fifteen newly commissioned essays, leading Kant scholars discuss four sets of student notes reflecting different periods of Kant's career: those taken by Herder (1762–4), Collins (mid-1770s), Mrongovius (1784–5) and Vigilantius (1793–4). The essays cover a diverse range of topics, from the relation between Kant's lectures and the Baumgarten textbooks, to obligation, virtue, love, the highest good, freedom, the categorical imperative, moral motivation and religion. Together they provide the reader with a deeper and fuller understanding of the evolution of Kant's moral thought. The volume will be of interest to a range of readers in Kant studies, ethics, political philosophy, religious studies and the history of ideas. https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/kants-lectures-on-ethics/4F1DCA8FEF765A5D556970062714CF03#fndtn-information
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Part I - The Sources
Chapter 1 - Kant’s lectures on ethics and Baumgarten’s moral philosophy
Chapter 2 - Herder: religion and moral motivation
Chapter 3 - Collins: Kant’s proto-critical position
Chapter 4 - Mrongovius II: a supplement to theGroundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals
Chapter 5 - Vigilantius: morality for humans
Part II - Practical Philosophy
Chapter 6 - Ancient insights in Kant’s conception of the highest good
Chapter 7 - Kant’s history of ethics
Chapter 8 - Moral obligation and free will
Chapter 9 - The elusive story of Kant’s permissive laws
Chapter 10 - On the logic of imputation in the Vigilantius lecture notes
Part III - Ethics
Chapter 11 - Freedom, ends, and the derivation of duties in the Vigilantius notes
Chapter 12 - Proper self-esteem and duties to oneself
Chapter 13 - Virtue, self-mastery, and the autocracy of practical reason
Chapter 14 - Love
Chapter 15 - Love of honor, emulation, and the psychology of the devilish vices

This is the first book devoted to an examination of Kant's lectures on ethics, which provide a unique and revealing perspective on the development of his views. In fifteen newly commissioned essays, leading Kant scholars discuss four sets of student notes reflecting different periods of Kant's career: those taken by Herder (1762–4), Collins (mid-1770s), Mrongovius (1784–5) and Vigilantius (1793–4). The essays cover a diverse range of topics, from the relation between Kant's lectures and the Baumgarten textbooks, to obligation, virtue, love, the highest good, freedom, the categorical imperative, moral motivation and religion. Together they provide the reader with a deeper and fuller understanding of the evolution of Kant's moral thought. The volume will be of interest to a range of readers in Kant studies, ethics, political philosophy, religious studies and the history of ideas.

https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/kants-lectures-on-ethics/4F1DCA8FEF765A5D556970062714CF03#fndtn-information

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