Ethics vindicated : Kant's transcendental legitimation of moral discourse /
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| Author / Creator: | Bencivenga, Ermanno, 1950- |
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| Imprint: | Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2007. |
| Description: | xiv, 193 p. ; 22 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | E-Resource Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/6167637 |
| Summary: | Can we regard ourselves as having free will? What is the place of values in a world of facts? What grounds the authority of moral injunctions, and why should we care about them? Unless we provide satisfactory answers to these questions, ethics has no credible status and is likely to be subsumed by psychology, history, or rational decision theory. According to Ermanno Bencivenga, this outcome is both common and regrettable. Bencivenga points to Immanuel Kant for the solution. Kant's philosophy is a sustained, bold, and successful effort aiming at offering us the answers we need. Ethics Vindicated is a clear and thorough account of this effort that builds on Bencivenga's previous interpretation of transcendental philosophy (as articulated in his Kant's Copernican Revolution) and draws on the entire Kantian corpus. |
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| Physical Description: | xiv, 193 p. ; 22 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 0195307356 9780195307351 |
