Practical Reason in Historical and Systematic Perspective / / ed. by James Conant, Dawa Ometto.

The idea that there is a distinctively practical use of reason, and correspondingly a distinctively practical form of knowledge, unites many otherwise diverse voices in the history of practical philosophy: from Aristotle to Kant, from Rousseau to Marx, from Hegel to G.E.M. Anscombe, and many others....

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Place / Publishing House:Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2023]
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Year of Publication:2023
Language:English
Series:Berlin Studies in Knowledge Research , 19
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Physical Description:1 online resource (VI, 354 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Table of Contents
  • Two Perspectives on Practical Reason and Practical Knowledge
  • Part I: Action & Practical Reasoning
  • Self-Consciousness in Acting
  • The Practical Syllogism
  • The Unity of a Practical Inference
  • Kant on Practical Necessity
  • Part II: Ethics and Meta-ethics
  • Against the Possibility of a Merely Instrumentally Rational Agent
  • Rousseau’s Conscience in Modern Moral Philosophy
  • Kant and the Freedom to Do What We Want
  • Part III: Political Philosophy
  • The Parts and Whole of Plato’s Republic
  • Philosophizing as Dying: Self-Knowledge and Reconciliation in Hegel
  • The Work of Human Hands: Marx on Humanity as Solidarity
  • Index