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This volume presents a selection of Robert Stern's work on the theme of Kantian ethics. The topics he explores include value, perfectionism, agency, autonomy, moral motivation, moral scepticism, and obligation, and he consider the influence of Kant's ethics on subsequent thinkers, up to the present day.
List of contents
- I. Themes from Kant's Ethics
- 1: Kant, Moral Obligation, and the Holy Will
- 2: Constructivism and the Argument from Autonomy
- 3: The Value of Humanity: Reflections on Korsgaard's Transcendental Argument
- 4: Moral Scepticism and Agency: Kant and Korsgaard
- 5: Moral Scepticism, Constructivism, and the Value of Humanity
- 6: Does 'Ought' Imply 'Can'? And Did Kant Think It Does?
- 7: Why Does Ought Imply Can?
- II. Ethics after Kant
- 8: On Hegel's Critique of Kant's Ethics: Beyond the Empty Formalism Objection
- 9: Does Hegelian Ethics Rest on a Mistake?
- 10: 'My Station and its Duties': Social Role Accounts of Obligation in Green and Bradley
- 11: The Ethics of the British Idealists: Perfectionism after Kant
- 12: Round Kant or Through Him? On James's Arguments for Freedom, and their Relation to Kant's
- 13: 'Duty and Virtue are Moral Introversions': On Løgstrup's Critique of Morality
- 14: Divine Commands and Secular Demands: On Darwall on Anscombe on 'Modern Moral Philosophy'
- Bibliography
- Index
About the author
Robert Stern has been at the University of Sheffield since 1989, having been a graduate and Research Fellow at St John's College, Cambridge. He is the author of Hegel, Kant and the Structure of the Object (Routledge 1990), Transcendental Arguments and Scepticism (OUP, 2000), Hegel's 'Phenomenology of Spirit' (Routledge 2002), and Understanding Moral Obligation: Kant, Hegel, Kierkegaard (CUP, 2012), while a first collection of his papers was published by Oxford University Press in 2009 under the title Hegelian Metaphysics.
Summary
This volume presents a selection of Robert Stern's work on the theme of Kantian ethics. The topics he explores include value, perfectionism, agency, autonomy, moral motivation, moral scepticism, and obligation, and he consider the influence of Kant's ethics on subsequent thinkers, up to the present day.
