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The Moral Habitat offers a new and systematic interpretation of Kant's moral and political philosophy. Herman introduces the idea of a moral habitat to examine the dynamic system of duties that exist between individuals and civic institutions.
Sommario
- Introduction
- PART ONE: Three Imperfect Duties
- 1: Framing the Question (What We Can Learn From Imperfect Duties)
- 2: Gratitude A System of Duties
- 3: Giving Impermissibility and Wrongness
- 4: Due Care The Importance of Motive
- PART TWO: Kantian Resources
- 5: Making the Turn to Kant
- 6: The Kantian System of Duties
- 7: Kantian Imperfect Duties
- 8: Tracking Value and Extending Duties
- PART THREE: Living in the Moral Habitat
- 9: A Dynamic System
- 10: A Right to Housing
- 11: Incompleteness and Moral Change
- Conclusion: Method and Limits
Info autore
Barbara Herman is the Griffin Professor of Philosophy and Professor of Law at UCLA. She previously held appointments at the University of Southern California and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She is the author of The Practice of Moral Judgment (Harvard, 1993), and Moral Literacy (Harvard, 2007), and Kantian Commitments (Oxford, 2022), and was the editor of John Rawls's Lectures on the History of Moral Philosophy (Harvard, 2000).
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The Moral Habitat offers a new and systematic interpretation of Kant's moral and political philosophy. Herman introduces the idea of a moral habitat to examine the dynamic system of duties that exist between individuals and civic institutions.
Testo aggiuntivo
I have no doubt that The Moral Habitat will be an important book. It puts forward an original systematic approach that will be sure to stimulate lots of discussion. It is written in an engaging and sometimes eloquent way with a distinctive philosophical voice. And it addresses important concrete issues, including some that are badly neglected by moral philosophers, in ways that illuminate both the moral habitat approach and the issues themselves. Perhaps most importantly, it stimulates its reader to think and inspires confidence that thinking within the moral habitat project will bear real fruit
