Kant’s Theory of Value / / ed. by Christoph Horn, Robinson dos Santos.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Plus DeG Package 2022 Part 1
• MitwirkendeR: Basaglia, Federica,; Horn, Christoph,; Löhrer, Guido,; Mieth, Corinna,; Møller, Sofie,; Porcheddu, Rocco,; Rosenthal, Jacob,; Santos, Robinson dos,; Schadow, Steffi,; Schönrich, Gerhard,; Sensen, Oliver,; Werner, Micha H.,; Wyrębska-Đermanović, Ewa,; Zimmermann, Stephan,
• HerausgeberIn: Horn, Christoph,; Santos, Robinson dos,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2022]; ©2022
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Series: Kantstudien-Ergänzungshefte , 219
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (XIV, 276 p.)

In explicit form, Kant does not speak that much about values or goods. The reason for this is obvious: the concepts of ‘values’ and ‘goods’ are part of the eudaimonistic tradition, and he famously criticizes eudaimonism for its flawed ‘material’ approach to ethics. But he uses, on several occasions, the traditional teleological language of goods and values. Especially in the Groundwork and the Critique of Practical Reason, Kant develops crucial points on this conceptual basis. Furthermore, he implicitly discusses issues of conditional and unconditional values, subjective and objective values, aesthetic or economic values etc. In recent Kant scholarship, there has been a controversy on the question how moral and nonmoral values are related in Kant’s account of human dignity. This leads to the more fundamental problem if Kant should be seen as a prescriptvist (antirealist) or as subscribing to a more objective rational agency account of goods. This issue and several further questions are addressed in this volume.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Table of Contents -- Introduction -- List of Sigla of Kant’s Works -- Kant’s Conception of Value – Realistic Enough? -- Kant’s Value Prescriptivism -- Kant on Moral Value in the Groundwork -- Acting for a Reason. What Kant’s Concept of Maxims Can Tell Us about Value, Human Action, and Practical Identity -- Blind Spots in the Formula of Humanity: What Does it Mean not to Treat Someone as an End? -- The Relationship between Dignity and the End in Itself in Kant’s Groundwork for the Metaphysics of Morals -- Some Remarks on the Concept of Good in the Second Chapter of the Analytics in Kant’s CPR -- The Moral Value of the Will. The Concepts of Good and Evil in the Second Chapter of Kant’s Critique of Practical Reason -- Kant’s Cosmopolitanism and the Value of Humanity – Implications for a Universal Right to Citizenship -- Honeste Vive and Legal Personality in Kant’s Metaphysics of Morals -- Kant’s Problematic Theory of the Value of Marriage -- Is Whatever Diminishes the Hindrances to an Activity a Furthering of this Activity Itself? Kant on Moral Value from Respect for the Law -- Manipulation and the Value of Rational Agency -- About the Authors -- Index