Paul Guyer

Kant on Freedom, Law, and Happiness

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Guyer revises the traditional interpretation of Kant's philosophy and shows how Kant's coherent liberalism can guide us in current debates.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 454
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. Februar 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 31mm
• Gewicht: 885g
• ISBN-13: 9780521652780
• ISBN-10: 0521652782
• Artikelnr.: 22243109

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Acknowledgments
Note on translations and citations
Part I. Origins: 1. Mendelssohn and Kant: one source of the critical philosophy
2. The unity of reason: pure reason as practical reason in Kant's early conception of the transcendental dialectic
3. Freedom as the 'inner value of the world'
Part II. Principles: 4. Kant's Morality of Law and Morality of Freedom
5. The possibility of the Categorical imperative
6. The strategy of the Groundwork
Part III. Duties: 7. Kantian foundations for Liberalism
8. Life, Liberty, and property: Rawls and Kant
9. Moral worth, virtue and merit
Part IV. Hopes: 10. From a practical point of view: Kant's conception of a postulate of pure practical reason
11. Nature, freedom and happiness: the third proposition of Kant's 'Idea for a Universal History'
12. Nature, morality and the possibility of peace
Index.