Kant''s Theory of Virtue - The Value of Autocracy

Informationen zum Autor Anne Margaret Baxley is Associate Professor and Director of Undergraduate Studies in Philosophy at Washington University in St Louis and the author of a number of journal articles on Kant. Klappentext Indicates a significant development in approaches to Kant's ethics! offering a systematic interpretation and assessment of Kant's theory of virtue. Zusammenfassung Anne Margaret Baxley offers a systematic interpretation of Kant's theory of virtue! showing how the distinctive features of Kant's moral theory offer an important and overlooked alternative to the Aristotelian views which have dominated contemporary virtue ethics. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgments; List of abbreviations; Introduction; 1. The good will, moral worth, and duty: concerns about Kant's rationalist moral psychology; 2. Kant's Conception of Virtue and the autocracy of Pure Practical Reason; 3. Virtue, human nature, and moral health: Kant's dispute with Schiller; 4. The moral psychology of Kantian virtue; Conclusion: Kant's considered account of moral character and the good will reconsidered.

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• Authors: Anne Margaret Baxley, Anne Margaret (Washington University Baxley, Baxley Anne Margaret
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 11.11.2010
• EAN: 9780521766234
• ISBN: 978-0-521-76623-4
• No. of pages: 206
• Series: Modern European Philosophy
• Subjects: Guides > Self-help, everyday life > Lifestyle, personal development; Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: antiquity to present day; PHILOSOPHY / History & Surveys / Modern, Ethics & moral philosophy, Ethics and moral philosophy, Western philosophy: c 1600 to c 1900, Philosophical traditions and schools of thought