Henry E Allison

Kant's Groundwork for the Metaphysics of Morals

A Commentary

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Produktbeschreibung

Henry E. Allison presents a comprehensive commentary on Kant's Groundwork for the Metaphysics of Morals (1785). Allison pays special attention to the structure of the work and its historical and intellectual context. He argues that, despite its relative brevity, the Groundwork is the single most important work in modern moral philosophy.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press
• Seitenzahl: 390
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. November 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 160mm x 30mm
• Gewicht: 748g
• ISBN-13: 9780199691531
• ISBN-10: 0199691533
• Artikelnr.: 33253882

Autorenporträt

Henry E. Allison is Professor Emeritus at the University of California, San Diego, and Boston University. He is the author of many books, including Custom and Reason in Hume (OUP, 2008), and over seventy-five scholarly articles and reviews.

Inhaltsangabe

* Acknowledgments
* Note on sources and key to abbreviations and translations
* Preface
* Part One: Preliminaries
* 1: The Nature of and Need for a Metaphysic of Morals: An Analysis of
the Preface of GMS
* 2: Universal Practical Philosophy and Popular Moral Philosophy
* Part Two: GMS 1
* 3: The Good Will
* 4: Maxims and Moral Worth Redux
* 5: Kant`s Three Propositions, the Supreme Principle of Morality, and
the Need for Moral Philosophy
* Part Three: GMS 2
* 6: Rational Agency and Imperatives
* 7: The Universal Law (FUL) and the Law of Nature (FLN)
* 8: The Formula of Humanity (FH)
* 9: Autonomy, Heteronomy, and Constructing the Categorical Imperative
* Part Four: GMS 3
* 10: The Moral Law, the Categorical Imperative, and the Reciprocity
Thesis
* 11: The Presupposition of Freedom, The Circle, and the two
Standpoints
* 12: The Deduction of the Categorical Imperative and the Outermost
Boundary of Practical Philosophy