The Highest Good in Kant’s Philosophy / / Thomas Höwing.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Plus eBook-Package 2016
• HerausgeberIn: Höwing, Thomas,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2016]; ©2016
• Year of Publication: 2016
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (VIII, 286 p.)

The idea of a final end of human conduct – the highest good – plays an important role in Kant’s philosophy. Unlike his predecessors Kant defines the highest good as a combination of two heterogeneous elements, namely virtue and happiness. This conception lies at the centre of some of the most influe...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Acknowledgments
• Contents
• Introduction
• Abbreviations and Methods of Reference
• Notes on Contributors
• The Highest Good and the Notion of the Good as Object of Pure Practical Reason
• Kant on ‘Good’, the Good, and the Duty to Promote the Highest Good
• Kant on Happiness and the Duty to Promote the Highest Good
• “Mixtum Compositum”: On the Persistence of Kant’s Dualism in the Doctrine of the Highest Good
• The Determination of the Concept of the Highest Good
• God, the Highest Good, and the Rationality of Faith: Reflections on Kant’s Moral Proof of the Existence of God
• Kant on “Moral Arguments”: What Does the Objectivity of a Postulate of Pure Practical Reason Consist In?
• Kant, Mendelssohn, and Immortality
• Life without Death: Why Kantian Agents Are Committed to the Belief in Their Own Immortality
• Kant on Opinion, Belief, and Knowledge
• Must We Believe in the Realizability of Our Ends? On a Premise of Kant’s Argument for the Postulates of Pure Practical Reason
• Applying the Concept of the Good: The Final End and the Highest Good in Kant’s Third Critique
• “The supersensible … in us, above us and after us”: The Critical Conception of the Highest Good in Kant’s Practico-Dogmatic Metaphysics
• Index of Names
• Subject Index