Kant and the Role of Pleasure in Moral Action

Klappentext In "Kant and the Role of Pleasure in Moral Action!" Iain Morrisson offers a new view on Kant's theory of moral action. In a clear! straightforward style! Morrisson responds to the ongoing interpretive stalemate by taking an original approach to the problem. Whereas previous commentators have attempted to understand Kant's feeling of respect by studying the relevant textual evidence in isolation! Morrisson illuminates this evidence by determining what Kant's more general theory of action commits him to regarding moral action. In reconstructing a unified theory of action in Kant! Morrisson integrates a number of distinct elements in his practical philosophy. "Kant and the Role of Pleasure in Moral Action "is part of a new wave of interest in Kant's anthropological (that is! psychological) works. Zusammenfassung Kant scholars since the early nineteenth century have disaxadgreed about how to interpret his theory of moral motivation. Kant tells us that the feeling of respect is the incentive to moral action, but he is notoriously ambiguous on the question of what exactly this means.

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• Authors: Iain P. D. Morrisson, Iain P.D. Morrisson
• Publisher: University of ohio press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 23.09.2008
• EAN: 9780821418307
• ISBN: 978-0-8214-1830-7
• No. of pages: 204
• Dimensions: 159 mm x 235 mm x 19 mm
• Series: Series in Continental Thought; Series in Continental Thought
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works