Jens Timmermann

Kant and the Supposed Right to Lie

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Produktbeschreibung

"Jens Timmermann provides a detailed philosophical, developmental and historical analysis of Immanuel Kant's 1797 essay 'On a Supposed Right to Lie from Love of Humanity', in which Kant argues that it is criminally wrong to lie to protect a friend from being murdered"--

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Januar 2025
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781108834216
• ISBN-10: 1108834213
• Artikelnr.: 68505807

Autorenporträt

Jens Timmermann is the Professor of Moral Philosophy in the University of St Andrews. He is the author of Kant's Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals: A Commentary (Cambridge, 2007) and Kant's Will at the Crossroads (2022) and the editor of the German-English edition of Kant's Groundwork (Cambridge, 2011).

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction
2. Kant's Duties of Truthfulness
3. The Story of Kant's Essay
4. Theoretical Foundations, Supposed Solutions
5. The Intricacies of Constant's Example
6. A Right to the Truth in Another?
7. Form and Matter
8. Kant's Argument against Constant
9. Luck and the Imputation of Harm
10. What Kant Should Have Said.