Kantian ethics /
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| Author / Creator: | Wood, Allen W. |
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| Imprint: | Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2008. |
| Description: | xviii, 342 p. ; 23 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | E-Resource Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/6663522 |
Table of Contents:
- Preface
- Abbreviations
- 1. Reason
- 1. What Is Kantian Ethics?
- 2. Human Nature
- 3. Gender and Race
- 4. Rationalism
- 5. Norms of Reason
- 2. Moral Worth
- 1. Acting from Duty
- 2. Good Will
- 3. The Duty to Act from Duty
- 4. Duty, Feeling, and Desire
- 5. Kant's Aims in the First Section of the Groundwork
- 3. Ethical Theory
- 1. The "Intuitional" or "Scientific" Model
- 2. Doubts about this Model
- 3. The "Foundational" or "Philosophical" Model
- 4. The First Principle - Moral Rules or Duties - Moral Judgment
- 4. The Moral Law
- 1. The Concept of a Categorical Imperative
- 2. Kant's Systematic Presentation of the Supreme Principle of Morality
- 3. Relations among the Formulas
- 4. The "Universal Formula"
- 5. Humanity
- 1. What Is an End in Itself?
- 2. Humanity Is an End in Itself
- 3. The Dignity of Humanity
- 4. The Personhood of Human Beings
- 5. The Moral Status of Nonrational Animals
- 6. Autonomy
- 1. Tensions within the Idea of Autonomy
- 2. Positive and Natural Law
- 3. The Author and Legislator of the Moral Law
- 4. The Nature of the Will
- 5. How the Will Legislates to Itself
- 7. Freedom
- 1. Practical Freedom
- 2. Acting for Reasons
- 3. Autonomy and Freedom
- 4. The Fact of Reason
- 5. Noumenal Freedom
- 6. How to Think about Freedom
- 8. Virtue
- 1. Actions and Agents
- 2. Virtue as Strength
- 3. Virtue and Temperament
- 4. Virtue, Duty, and Continence
- 5. Practical Judgment and Wisdom
- 6. Ideals and Principles
- 9. Duties
- 1. Kant's Concept of Duty
- 2. The System of Duties
- 3. The Principle of Ethical Duties
- 4. Duties to Oneself
- 5. Duties of Love and Respect
- 10. Conscience
- 1. Conscience as Feeling
- 2. The Inner Court
- 3. Conscience, Guilt, and Punishment
- 4. The Duty of Self-Knowledge
- 11. Social Justice
- 1. Taxing the Rich to Support the Poor
- 2. General Injustice
- 3. Fichte on Economic Justice
- 4. Kantian Ethics and Economic Right
- 12. Punishment
- 1. What Is Retributivism?
- 2. Kant's Best Justification of Punishment
- 3. Punishment and Universal Law
- 4. Is Retributivism Consistent with Kantian Ethics?
- 13. Sex
- 1. Sexual Desire
- 2. The Subjection of Women
- 3. The Meaning of the Figleaf
- 4. Kant's Defense of Marriage
- 14. Lies
- 1. Intentionally False Declarations
- 2. Kant and Constant
- 3. Truthfulness as an Ethical Duty to Oneself
- 4. The Inner Lie
- 15. Consequences
- 1. Kantian Ethics vs. "Consequentialism"
- 2. Good versus Evil
- 3. The Limits of Ethical Theory
- Notes
- Index
