Kant's search for the supreme principle of morality /

Kant's search for the supreme principle of morality /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Kerstein, Samuel J., 1965-
Imprint:	Cambridge, U.K. ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2002.
Description:	1 online resource (xiv, 226 pages)
Language:	English
Subject:	Kant, Immanuel, -- 1724-1804 -- Ethics. Kant, Immanuel, -- 1724-1804. Ethics. Electronic books.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11129925

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ISBN:	0511042205 9780511042201 9780511498206 0511498209 9780511045080 0511045085 0511157533 9780511157530 9780521810890 0521810892
Digital file characteristics:	data file
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 193-220) and index. Print version record.
Summary:	Investigates the claim that there can only be one principle of morality, the categorical imperative. The author constructs a new, criterial reading of Kant's derivation of one version of the categorical imperative: the formula of universal law.
Other form:	Print version: Kerstein, Samuel J., 1965- Kant's search for the supreme principle of morality. Cambridge, U.K. ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2002 0521810892

Table of Contents:

Acknowledgments
Key to abbreviations and translations
Introduction: derivation, deduction, and the supreme principle of morality
1. Fundamental concepts in Kant's theory of agency
2. Transcendental freedom and the derivation of the formula of universal law
3. The derivation of the formula of humanity
4. The derivation of the formula of universal law: a criterial reading
5. Criteria for the supreme principle of morality
6. Duty and moral worth
7. Eliminating rivals to the categorical imperative
8. Conclusions: Kant's candidates for the supreme principle of morality
Notes
Index