Autonomy, Moral Worth, and Right : : Kant on Obligatory Ends, Respect for Law, and Original Acquisition / / Jeffrey Edwards.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Plus DeG Package 2018 Part 1
• VerfasserIn: Edwards, Jeffrey,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2017]; ©2018
• Year of Publication: 2017
• Language: English
• Series: Kantstudien-Ergänzungshefte , 198
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (340 p.)

This book examines the surprising ramifications of Kant’s late account of practical reason’s obligatory ends as well as a revolutionary implication of his theory of property. It thereby sheds new light on Kant’s place in the history of modern moral philosophy.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Note on Sources, Abbreviations, and Translations -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Part I: Obligatory Ends, Material Practical Principles, and Practical Law in Kant’s Doctrine of Morals -- Chapter 1: Reason’s Lawgiving and Obligatory Ends in the Metaphysics of Morals -- Chapter 2: Obligatory Ends and the Grounding of Maxims: A Key Problem in Kant’s Moral Doctrine of Ends -- Chapter 3: The Principle of Self-Love and Material Practical Principles in the Critique of Practical Reason -- Part II: Moral Worth and Motivation in Kant and Hume -- Chapter 4: Eudaimonistic Etiology, Own-Perfection, and Moral Worth -- Chapter 5: Moral Worth and Motivation in Kant’s Criticism of Sentimentalist Ethics -- Part III: Kant’s Juridical Theory of Right and the Foundations of Property Law -- Chapter 6: Original Community, Possession, and Acquisition in Kant’s Doctrine of Right -- Chapter 7: Original Acquisition in Kant, Grotius, and Selden -- Part IV: Placing Kant in his History of Moral Philosophy -- Chapter 8: Kant’s Classification of Material Principles of Morality in the Critique of Practical Reason -- Chapter 9: Hutcheson and Rousseau in the Development of Kant’s Doctrine of Morals -- Chapter 10: Sentimentalist Ethics and Natural Law -- Chapter 11: Kant and the Role of the Honestum in Sentimentalist and Rationalist Ethics -- Chapter 12: Natural Right, Material Equality, and the Normative Basis of Acquisition -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index