Kant's Ethics : : The Good, Freedom, and the Will / / John Silber.

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• VerfasserIn: Silber, John,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2012]; ©2012
• Year of Publication: 2012
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (374 p.)

Kant's Ethics: The Good, Freedom, and the Will is a systematic examination of Kant's ethics that recognizes the central importance of the good in relation to duty as forming a unified whole, in accordance with Kant's intent. The Enlightenment, by undermining the religious foundations of morality, prompted Kant to offer a new foundation for ethics based not on religion but on reason. The first chapter provides the context of Kant's ethics and explains the criteria by which to select views that are authoritative among Kant's variety of statements. With these criteria for interpretation in hand, the book attempts a systematic account of Kant's ethics as he developed it over a period of more than 40 years. Kant's Ethics includes an analysis of the tripartite nature of the will in its dynamic unity and the relation of the will to the good. An appendix, "Kant at Auschwitz," briefly considers a serious problem for Kant's political philosophy that follows from his insistence on obeying civil authority.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Preface -- Foreword -- Table of Contents -- Introduction -- Chapter I: The Context Of Kant's Ethics -- Chapter II: The Copernican Revolution In Ethics: The Good Reexamined -- Chapter III: Kant's Analysis Of The Will -- Chapter IV: The Moral Good And The Natural Good -- Chapter V: The Highest Good As The Material Object Of Moral Volition -- Chapter VI: The Highest Good As Immanent And As Transcendent -- Chapter VII: The Moral Task: The Embodiment Of The Highest Good -- Chapter VIII: The Role Of Judgment In Kant's Procedural Formalism -- Chapter IX: The Role Of Judgment In The Embodiment Of The Highest Good -- Chapter X: Summary And Assessment -- Appendix: Kant at Auschwitz -- Kant's Works And Their Abbreviations -- Bibliography -- Acknowledgements -- Index