Kant and the Limits of Autonomy / / Susan Meld Shell.

• VerfasserIn: Shell, Susan Meld,
• Place / Publishing House: Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2009]; ©2009
• Year of Publication: 2009
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (444 p.)

Autonomy for Kant is not just a synonym for the capacity to choose, whether simple or deliberative. It is what the word literally implies: the imposition of a law on one’s own authority and out of one’s own rational resources. In Kant and the Limits of Autonomy, Shell explores the limits of Kantian...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction: Taking Autonomy Seriously
• I GETTING THERE
• 1 “Carazan’s Dream”: Kant’s Early Theory of Freedom
• 2 Kant’s Archimedean Moment: Remarks in “Observations Concerning the Feeling of the Beautiful and the Sublime”
• 3 Rousseau, Count Verri, and the “True Economy of Human Nature”: Lectures on Anthropology, 1772–1781
• 4 The “Paradox” of Autonomy
• II COMPLICATIONS ON ARRIVAL
• Introduction to Part II: Late Kant, 1789–1798
• 5 Moral Hesitation in Religion within the Boundaries of Bare Reason
• 6 Kant’s “True Politics”: Völkerrecht in Toward Perpetual Peace and The Metaphysics of Morals
• 7 Kant as Educator: The Conflict of the Faculties, Part One
• 8 Archimedes Revisited: Honor and History in The Conflict of the Faculties, Part Two
• 9 Kant’s Jewish Problem
• Concluding Remarks: The Limits of Autonomy
• Notes
• Index