Naturalism and realism in Kant's ethics
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Naturalism and realism in Kant's ethics
Cambridge University Press, 2015
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 250-257) and index
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Description
In this comprehensive assessment of Kant's metaethics, Frederick Rauscher shows that Kant is a moral idealist rather than a moral realist and argues that Kant's ethics does not require metaphysical commitments that go beyond nature. Rauscher frames the argument in the context of Kant's non-naturalistic philosophical method and the character of practical reason as action-oriented. Reason operates entirely within nature, and apparently non-natural claims - God, free choice, and value - are shown to be heuristic and to reflect reason's ordering of nature. The book shows how Kant hesitates between a transcendental moral idealism with an empirical moral realism and a complete moral idealism. Examining every aspect of Kant's ethics, from the categorical imperative to freedom and value, this volume argues that Kant's focus on human moral agency explains morality as a part of nature. It will appeal to academic researchers and advanced students of Kant, German idealism and intellectual history.
Table of Contents
- Citations of Kant's writings
- Introduction
- Part I. Laying the Ground: 1. Moral realism and naturalism
- 2. The place of ethics in Kant's philosophy
- Part II. Practical Reason in Nature: 3. The priority of the practical and the fact of reason
- 4. The transcendental status of empirical reason
- Part III. Morality beyond Nature?: 5. 'God' without God: the status of the postulates
- 6. From many to one to none: non-natural free choice
- 7. Value and the inexplicability of the practical
- Postscript: Kant's naturalist moral idealism
- Works cited
- Index.
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