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This book examines Immanuel Kant's impact on moral philosophy from his time to our own. Kant's moral philosophy can seem complicated, but at the most basic level it is driven by the simple idea that the greatest possible freedom for each combined with an equal degree of freedom for all is the fundamental principle of philosophy.
List of contents
- Introduction
- Part I: Kant's Moral Philosophy
- 1: The Development of Kant's Moral Philosophy from 1764-65 to 1781
- 2: The Foundations of Kant's Mature Moral Philosophy in the Groundwork and Critique of Practical Reason
- 3: Kant's Moral Philosophy in the 1790s
- Part II: The Immediate Reception of Kant's Moral Philosophy
- 4: The Categorical Imperative, Empty Formalism and Happiness: The Early Reviews
- 5: Freedom and Immorality: Ulrich, Schmid, Reinhold, and Kant
- 6: Moral Feelings in Kantian Ethics
- Part III: German Idealism and Its Opponents
- 7: Fichte
- 8: Schelling
- 9: Hegel
- 10: Herbart and Schopenhauer
- 11: Nietzsche's Transvaluation of Kantian Values
- Part IV: The Anglophone Reception: Idealism Pro and Con
- 12: Kant and Anglophone Idealism: Bradley to Paton
- 13: Non-Idealist British Responses to Kant Kant in Cambridge: Sidgwick and Moore
- 14: Kant in Oxford: Prichard and Ross to Anscombe and Williams
- Part V: The Anglophone Reception: Consequentialism and Constructivism
- 15: Combining Kant and Consequentialism: Hare to Parfit
- 16: Kantian Constructivism I: Rawls
- 17: Kantian Constructivism II: Nagel, Korsgaard, Piper, and O'Neill
About the author
Paul Guyer is Jonathan Nelson Professor of Humanities and Philosophy at Brown University. He received his AB and PhD from Harvard University. Prior to moving to Brown in 2012, he taught for thirty years at the University of Pennsylvania. He is the author, editor, and/or translator of twenty-seven books, many on the philosophy of Kant. He was the General Co-Editor of the Cambridge Edition of the Works of Immanuel Kant. Guyer has been president of the Eastern Division of the American Philosophical Association and the American Society of Aesthetics. He is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Summary
This book examines Immanuel Kant's impact on moral philosophy from his time to our own. Kant's moral philosophy can seem complicated, but at the most basic level it is driven by the simple idea that the greatest possible freedom for each combined with an equal degree of freedom for all is the fundamental principle of philosophy.
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Kant's Impact on Moral Philosophy is a worthy successor to the Invention of Autonomy. Guyer pushes far beyond the usual narrative according to which Kant's greatest impact was on the German Idealists and Rawls(ians). His book will be of great interest to Kant scholars and Kantian ethicists, as well as to scholars who are curious about the Kantiandebts of many significant 19th- and 20th-century ethicists.
