Sovereign Reason - Autonomy and Our Interests of Reason

About the author

Adam Cureton is Lindsay Young Professor of Philosophy at the University of Tennessee. He received a B.Phil. in philosophy from the University of Oxford on a Rhodes Scholarship and a Ph.D. in philosophy at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He has published widely on ethics and Kant, including a collection on human dignity and essays on respect, solidarity, and hope. He is also an internationally recognized scholar in philosophy of disability who published a book on respect for people with disabilities and edited several collections in this area.

Summary

This book explores the idea that our reason includes an expansive set of governing abilities, substantive motives, and substantive principles. It argues that this conception of reason is consistent with commonsense and Kantian ideas, and it discusses issues such as generosity, coercion, deception, and friendship.

Product details

• Authors: Adam Cureton, Adam (Lindsay Young Professor of Philosop Cureton, Cureton Adam
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 17.04.2025
• EAN: 9780192868190
• ISBN: 978-0-19-286819-0
• No. of pages: 448
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works; PHILOSOPHY / Mind & Body, PHILOSOPHY / History & Surveys / Modern, PHILOSOPHY / Ethics & Moral Philosophy, Philosophy of Mind, Ethics & moral philosophy, Ethics and moral philosophy, Western philosophy: Enlightenment