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Kant's moral and legal philosophy

edited by Karl Ameriks, Otfried Höffe ; translated by Nicholas Walker

(The German philosophical tradition)

Cambridge University Press, 2009

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Bibliography: p. 305-316

Includes index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

This volume brings to English readers the finest postwar German-language scholarship on Kant's moral and legal philosophy. Examining Kant's relation to predecessors such as Hutcheson, Wolff, and Baumgarten, it clarifies the central issues in each of Kant's major works in practical philosophy, including The Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals, The Critique of Practical Reason, and The Metaphysics of Morals. It also examines the relation of Kant's philosophy to politics. Collectively, the essays in this volume provide English readers with a direct view of how leading German philosophers are now regarding Kant's revolutionary practical philosophy, one of the outstanding achievements of German thought.

Table of Contents

  • 1. Introduction Karl Ameriks and Otfried Hoeffe
  • Part I. Early Conceptions: 2. Hutcheson and Kant Dieter Henrich
  • 3. The theory of obligation in Wolff, Baumgarten, and the early Kant Clemens Schwaiger
  • Part II. Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals: 4. What is the purpose of a metaphysics of morals? Some observations on the preface to the groundwork of the metaphysics of morals Ludwig Siep
  • 5. The transition from common rational to philosophical rational moral knowledge in the groundwork Dieter Schoenecker
  • 6. Reason practical in its own right Gerold Prauss
  • 7. Kant's justification of the role of maxims in ethics Michael Albrecht
  • Part III. Critique of Practical Reason: 8. The form of the maxim as the determining ground of the will (critique of practical reason, 4-6, 27-30) Otfried Hoeffe
  • 9. On the concept of an object of pure practical reason (chapter two of the analytic of practical reason) Annemarie Pieper
  • 10. The dialectic of pure practical reason in the second critique (cprr 107-121) Eckart Foerster
  • 11. The postulates of pure practical reason Friedo Ricken
  • Part IV. Legal and Political Philosophy: 12. On how to acquire something external, and especially on the right to things (a commentary on the metaphysics of morals 10-17) Kristian Kuhl
  • 13. 'The civil constitution in a republican state shall be a republican one' Wolfgang Kersting
  • 14. Commentary on Kant's treatment of constitutional right (metaphysics of morals II: general remark A, 51-52
  • conclusion, appendix) Bernd Ludwig
  • 15. Refusing sovereign power - the relation between politics and philosophy in the modern age Volker Gerhardt.

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