The Emergence of Autonomy in Kant's Moral Philosophy

List of contents

Introduction Stefano Bacin and Oliver Sensen; 1. How is moral obligation possible? Kant's 'principle of autonomy' in historical context Heiner F. Klemme; 2. Anticipations of autonomy: freedom, obligation, and the concept of a world in Kant's writings of the Mid-1750s to Mid-1760s Susan Meld Shell; 3. Autonomy and moral rationalism: Kant's criticisms of 'rationalist' moral principles (1762-85) Stefano Bacin; 4. Autonomy and moral empiricism: Kant's criticism of sentimentalist moral principles (1762-85) Georg Mohr; 5. Elements of autonomy in Kant's Lectures on Ethics (1770-80) Oliver Sensen; 6. Emerging autonomy: dealing with the inadequacies of the 'canon' of the Critique of Pure Reason (1781) Jens Timmermann; 7. Autonomy and the legislation of laws in the Prolegomena (1783) Eric Watkins; 8. How can freedom be a law to itself? The concept of autonomy in the 'introduction' to the Naturrecht Feyerabend lecture notes (1784) Marcus Willaschek; 9. Moral autonomy as political analogy: self-legislation in Kant's Groundwork and the Feyerabend lectures on natural law (1784) Pauline Kleingeld; 10. What emerged: autonomy and heteronomy in the Groundwork and second Critique Andrews Reath; 11. Kant's threefold autonomy after the Groundwork: reason's own law-giving as our own cosmopolitan law-giving Pierre Keller.

Product details

• Assisted by: Stefano Bacin (Editor), Bacin Stefano (Editor), Oliver Sensen (Editor), Sensen Oliver (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 06.08.2020
• EAN: 9781316633762
• ISBN: 978-1-316-63376-2
• Dimensions: 153 mm x 230 mm x 10 mm
• Weight: 360 g
• Illustrations: Worked examples or Exercises
• Subjects: 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, Western philosophy: Enlightenment