Creating the kingdom of ends
Christine Korsgaard has become one of the leading interpreters of Kant's moral philosophy. This collection of thirteen of her essays contains some of the finest current work on Kant's ethics and will command the attention of all those involved in teaching and studying moral theory.
Print Book, English, 1999
Cambridge University Press, Cambridge [u.a.], 1999
XVIII, 442 S
9780521496445, 9780521499620, 0521496446, 0521499623
247606381
Part I. Kant's Moral Philosophy: 1. An introduction to the ethical, political, and religious thought of Kant; 2. Kant's analysis of obligation: the argument of Groundwork I; 3. Kant's formula of universal law; 4. Kant's formula of humanity; 5. The right to lie: Kant on dealing with evil; 6. Morality as freedom; 7. Creating the kingdom of ends: reciprocity and responsibility in personal relations; Part II. Comparative Essays: 8. Aristotle and Kant on the source of value; 9. Two distinctions in goodness; 10. The reasons we can share: an attack on the distinction between agent-relative and agent-neutral values; 11. Skepticism about practical reason; 12. Two arguments against lying; 13. Personal identity and the unity of agency: a Kantian response to Parfit.
Literaturverz. S. 399 - 405