Nicolai Hartmann

Moral Freedom (eBook, PDF)

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Produktbeschreibung

Ethics is Nicolai Hartmann's magnum opus on moral philosophy. Volume 1, Moral Phenomena, is concerned with the nature and structure of ethical phenomena. Volume 2, Moral Values, describes all values as forming a complex and imperfectly known system. The final volume, Moral Freedom, deals with one of the oldest puzzles in both philosophy and theology: the individual's freedom of the will.

Freedom of the will is a necessary precondition of morality. Without it, there is no morality in the full sense of the word. In Moral Freedom Hartmann sets out to refute the determinist view that freedom of the will is impossible. Following Kant, while rejecting his transcendentalism, Hartmann first discusses the tension between causality and the freedom of the will.

The tension between the determination by moral values and the freedom of the will is next examined, a crucial issue completely overlooked by Kant and virtually all other modern philosophers, but recognized by the scholastics. Why should we believe in the freedom of the will with regard to the moral values? Are there good reasons for thinking that it exists? If freedom of the will vis-a-vis the moral values does exist, how is it to be conceived? Moral Freedom concludes with the famous postscript on the antinomies between ethics and religion.

Hartmann's Ethics may well be the most outstanding treatise on moral philosophy in the twentieth century. Andreas Kinneging's introduction sheds light on the volume's continuing relevance.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. September 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781351504768
• Artikelnr.: 49377266

Autorenporträt

Nicolai Hartmann

Inhaltsangabe

1: The Psychophysical Law
2: Sensation and Measurement
3: Intramodal Matching
4: Cross-Modality Matching
5: Partition Scales and Paradoxes
6: Thresholds and the Neural Quantum
7: Neural Correlates
8: Scaling the Social Consensus
9: Hazards and Remedies

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Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- Section I PRELIMINARY CRITICAL QUESTIONS -- CHAPTER I (LXV) THE CONNECTIONS OF THE PROBLEM -- CHAPTER II (LXVI) HISTORICAL DEVELOPMENT OF THE PROBLEM OF FREEDOM -- CHAPTER III (LXVII) ERRONEOUS CONCEPTIONS OF FREEDOM -- Section II THE CAUSAL ANTINOMY -- CHAPTER IV (LXVIII) THE SIGNIFICANCE OF KANT'S SOLUTION -- CHAPTER V (LXIX) DETERMINISM AND INDETERMINISM -- CHAPTER VI (LXX) DETERMINISM, CAUSAL AND FINALISTIC -- CHAPTER VII (LXXI) ONTOLOGICAL REGULARITY AS THE BASIS OF FREEDOM -- Section III THE ANTINOMY OF THE OUGHT -- CHAPTER VIII (LXXII) CRITICISM OF THE KANTIAN DOCTRINE OF FREEDOM -- CHAPTER IX (LXXIII) FALSE WAYS OF PROVING THE FREEDOM OF THE WILL -- CHAPTER X (LXXIV) THE PRESENT STATE OF THE PROBLEM -- Section IV ETHICAL PHENOMENA, THEIR EFFICACY AS PROOFS -- CHAPTER XI (LXXV) "PROOFS" OF METAPHYSICAL OBJECTS -- CHAPTER XII (LXXVI) MORAL JUDGMENT AND THE CONSCIOUSNESS OF SELF-DETERMINATION -- CHAPTER XIII (LXXVII) RESPONSIBILITY AND ACCOUNTABILITY -- CHAPTER XIV (LXXVIII) THE CONSCIOUSNESS OF GUILT -- CHAPTER XV (LXXIX) SUPPLEMENTARY GROUPS OF FACTS -- CHAPTER XVI (LXXX) OUGHT AND THE WILL -- Section V ONTOLOGICAL POSSIBILITY OF PERSONAL FREEDOM -- CHAPTER XVII (LXXXI) AUTONOMY OF THE PERSON AND DETERMINATION OF VALUES -- CHAPTER XVIII (LXXXII) SOLUTION OF THE OUGHT-ANTINOMY -- CHAPTER XIX (LXXXIII) PROBLEMS STILL UNSOLVED -- Section VI APPENDIX TO THE DOCTRINE OF FREEDOM -- CHAPTER XX (LXXXIV) APPARENT AND REAL DEFECTS OF THE THEORY -- INDEX