Universal Law and Humanity Formulas and Contemporary Kantian Ethics - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Universal Law and Humanity Formulas and Contemporary Kantian Ethics write by Sven Nyholm. This book was released on 2015-05-30. Universal Law and Humanity Formulas and Contemporary Kantian Ethics available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Interest in Kant's ethical theory has intensified in recent analytic philosophy. Yet, much of this work has mixed its enthusiasm with strong criticisms. This book investigates these recent engagements with Kant's basic moral principles. It argues that most of these new criticisms rest on mistaken assumptions about how to read Kant. As an alternative, it presents an updated reading of Kant's "universal law" and "humanity" formulas.
Revisiting Kant's Universal Law and Humanity Formulas
Revisiting Kant's Universal Law and Humanity Formulas - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Revisiting Kant's Universal Law and Humanity Formulas write by Sven Nyholm. This book was released on 2015-07-24. Revisiting Kant's Universal Law and Humanity Formulas available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book offers new readings of Kant’s “universal law” and “humanity” formulations of the categorical imperative. It shows how, on these readings, the formulas do indeed turn out being alternative statements of the same basic moral law, and in the process responds to many of the standard objections raised against Kant’s theory. Its first chapter briefly explores the ways in which Kant draws on his philosophical predecessors such as Plato (and especially Plato’s Republic) and Jean-Jacque Rousseau. The second chapter offers a new reading of the relation between the universal law and humanity formulas by relating both of these to a third formula of Kant’s, viz. the “law of nature” formula, and also to Kant’s ideas about laws in general and human nature in particular. The third chapter considers and rejects some influential recent attempts to understand Kant’s argument for the humanity formula, and offers an alternative reconstruction instead. Chapter four considers what it is to flourish as a human being in line with Kant’s basic formulas of morality, and argues that the standard readings of the humanity formula cannot properly account for its relation to Kant’s views about the highest human good.
Creating the Kingdom of Ends
Creating the Kingdom of Ends - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Creating the Kingdom of Ends write by Christine M. Korsgaard. This book was released on 1996-07-28. Creating the Kingdom of Ends available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Christine Korsgaard has become one of the leading interpreters of Kant's moral philosophy. She is identified with a small group of philosophers who are intent on producing a version of Kant's moral philosophy that is at once sensitive to its historical roots while revealing its particular relevance to contemporary problems. She rejects the traditional picture of Kant's ethics as a cold vision of the moral life which emphasises duty at the expense of love and value. Rather, Kant's work is seen as providing a resource for addressing not only the metaphysics of morals, but also for tackling practical questions about personal relations, politics, and everyday human interaction. This collection contains some of the finest current work on Kant's ethics and will command the attention of all those involved in teaching and studying moral theory.
Virtue, Rules, and Justice
Virtue, Rules, and Justice - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Virtue, Rules, and Justice write by Thomas E. Hill Jr.. This book was released on 2012-05-31. Virtue, Rules, and Justice available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Thomas E. Hill, Jr., interprets and extends Kant's moral theory in a series of essays that highlight its relevance to contemporary ethics. He introduces the major themes of Kantian ethics and explores its practical application to questions about revolution, prison reform, and forcible interventions in other countries for humanitarian purposes.
The Value of Humanity in Kant's Moral Theory
The Value of Humanity in Kant's Moral Theory - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Value of Humanity in Kant's Moral Theory write by Richard Dean. This book was released on 2006-05-11. The Value of Humanity in Kant's Moral Theory available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The humanity formulation of Kant's Categorical Imperative demands that we treat humanity as an end in itself. Because this principle resonates with currently influential ideals of human rights and dignity, contemporary readers often find it compelling, even if the rest of Kant's moral philosophy leaves them cold. Moreover, some prominent specialists in Kant's ethics have recently turned to the humanity formulation as the most theoretically central and promising principle of Kant'sethics. Nevertheless, it has received less attention than many other aspects of Kant's ethics. Richard Dean offers the most sustained and systematic examination of the humanity formulation to date. He presents an original analysis of what it means to treat humanity as an end in itself, and examinesthe implications both for Kant scholarship and for practical guidance on specific moral issues.
