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Sommario
- Introduction
- 1: Kant, Autonomy, and Modernity
- Part I: The Value of Freedom
- 2: Is and Ought: From Hume to Kant, and Now
- 3: Freedom as the Foundation of Morality: Kant's Early Efforts
- 4: Freedom and the Essential Ends of Humankind
- 5: Kantian Perfectionism
- 6: Setting and Pursuing Ends: Internal and External Freedom
- 7: Freedom, Ends, and Duties in Vigilantius
- Part II: The Actuality of Freedom
- 8: The Proof-Structure of the Groundwork and the Role of Section III
- 9: Proving Ourselves Free
- 10: Problems with Freedom: Kant's Argument in Groundwork III and its Subsequent Emendations
- 11: Natural and Rational Belief: Kant's Final Words?
- Part III: The Achievement of Freedom
- 12: A Passion for Reason: Kant and the Motivation for Morality
- 13: The Obligation to be Virtuous: Kant's Conception of the Tugenverpflichtung
- 14: Kant on Moral Feelings: From the Lectures to the Metaphysics of Morals
- 15: Examples of Moral Possibility
- Conclusion
- 16: Kantian Communities
Info autore
Paul Guyer received his AB and PhD from Harvard University. He has taught at the Universities of Pittsburgh, Illinois-Chicago, Pennsylvania, and Brown University. He is the author, editor, and translator of two dozen previous books, including nine monographs or collections on Kant and the three-volume History of Modern Aesthetics (2014). He has been General Co-Editor of the Cambridge Edition of the Works of Immanuel Kant, for which he has been co-editor of the Critique of Pure Reason and editor of Kant's Critique of the Power of Judgment and Notes and Fragments. He is a past president of the American Philosophical Association Eastern Division and the American Society of Aesthetics. He has held numerous fellowships in the United States, has been a Research Prize Winner of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation of the Federal Republic of Germany, and is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Riassunto
This volume of essays by one of the world's foremost Kant scholars explores the efforts of the great Enlightenment philosopher Immanuel Kant (1724-1804) to construct a moral philosophy based on the premise that the most fundamental value for human beings is their freedom to set their own ends.
Testo aggiuntivo
This is a masterful achievement by one of the world's foremost Kant scholars. It represents a welcome and original contribution to Kant's ethics. It will be mandatory reading for anyone interested in Kant's conception of freedom ... Guyer succeeds in saying something new about a familiar theme in the way he untangles the novel aspects of Kant's account of the nature and value of moral freedom, and meticulously reconstructs Kant's various attempts to justify the claim that finite rational agents possess the freedom to act on the basis of categorical moral commands ... All of the essays advance scholarly debates about Kant's philosophy in notable ways. Guyer's analysis reflects a mastery of Kant's corpus and a deep knowledge of the relevant views of Kant's most important predecessors and contemporaries
