Kant, Schopenhauer and Morality: Recovering the Categorical Imperative

Informationen zum Autor MARK (aka Joss) WALKER has been a permanent lecturer at the University of Birmingham, UK since 1991, before which he taught at the American University in Cairo, Egypt, Thames Polytechnic, England, and the University of Keele, England. Klappentext Addressing the perennial question: why should we be moral? this book argues that we can only give a truly and morally satisfying answer to that question by radically reconfiguring our conception of the self and the way it relates to others. Zusammenfassung Addressing the perennial question: why should we be moral? this book argues that we can only give a truly and morally satisfying answer to that question by radically reconfiguring our conception of the self and the way it relates to others. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface and Acknowledgements Introduction: A Great Reversal? PART I: HOW KANT FAILED TO JUSTIFY HIS CATEGORICAL IMPERATIVE Justifying Morality Groundwork 3 – An Enigmatic Text The Second Critique Groundwork 2 - Rational Nature as an End-in-itself? PART II: HOW KANT SHOULD HAVE JUSTIFIED HIS CATEGORICAL IMPERATIVE Introduction: Reconstructing Groundwork 3 From Rational Agency to Freedom From Freedom to the Non-Phenomenal From Non-Phenomenality to Universality The Identity of Persons Recovering the Categorical Imperative Bibliography Index

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Preface and Acknowledgements Introduction: A Great Reversal? PART I: HOW KANT FAILED TO JUSTIFY HIS CATEGORICAL IMPERATIVE Justifying Morality Groundwork 3 - An Enigmatic Text The Second Critique Groundwork 2 - Rational Nature as an End-in-itself? PART II: HOW KANT SHOULD HAVE JUSTIFIED HIS CATEGORICAL IMPERATIVE Introduction: Reconstructing Groundwork 3 From Rational Agency to Freedom From Freedom to the Non-Phenomenal From Non-Phenomenality to Universality The Identity of Persons Recovering the Categorical Imperative Bibliography Index

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• Authors: M Walker, M. Walker, Mark Thomas Walker, WALKER MARK THOMAS
• Publisher: Palgrave UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.11.2011
• EAN: 9780230282605
• ISBN: 978-0-230-28260-5
• No. of pages: 463
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works; B, Ethics, Philosophy, Ethics & moral philosophy, History of Philosophy, Philosophy: metaphysics & ontology, Modern philosophy: since c 1800, Metaphysics, Moral Philosophy and Applied Ethics, History of philosophy, philosophical traditions, Palgrave Religion & Philosophy Collection, Moral Philosophy, Modern Philosophy, Philosophical Traditions, Movement (Philosophy), Early Modern Philosophy