Author: Allen W. Wood
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Keywords: ethics, kantian
Number of Pages: 360
Published: 2007-12-10
List price: $25.99
ISBN-10: 0521671140
ISBN-13: 9780521671149
Allen Wood investigates Kant’s conception of ethical theory, using it to develop a viable approach to the rights and moral duties of human beings. By remaining closer to Kant’s own view of the aims of ethics, Wood’s understanding of Kantian ethics differs from the received ’constructivist’ interpretation, especially on such matters as the ground and function of ethical principles, the nature of ethical reasoning and autonomy as the ground of ethics. Wood does not hesitate to criticize and modify Kant’s conclusions when they seem inconsistent with his basic p
Author: David Cummiskey
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Keywords: consequentialism, kantian
Number of Pages: 208
Published: 1996-01-18
List price: $120.00
ISBN-10: 0195094530
ISBN-13: 9780195094534
The central problem for normative ethics is the conflict between a consequentialist view--that morality requires promoting the good of all--and a belief that the rights of the individual place significant constraints on what may be done to help others. Standard interpretations see Kant as rejecting all forms of consequentialism, and defending a theory which is fundamentally duty-based and agent-centered. Certain actions, like sacrificing the innocent, are categorically forbidden. In this original and controversial work, Cummiskey argues that there is no defensible basis for this view, that Kan
Author: Marcia W. Baron
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Keywords: apology, ethics, kantian
Number of Pages: 264
Published: 1999-02
List price: $29.95
ISBN-10: 0801486041
ISBN-13: 9780801486043
Author: Harry Van Der Linde
Publisher: Hackett Pub Co Inc
Keywords: socialism, ethics, kantian
Number of Pages: 370
Published: 1988-07-01
List price: $16.95
ISBN-10: 0872200272
ISBN-13: 9780872200272
’Raises a question of the very first importance in political philosophy: can one find an adequate moral foundation for democratic socialism that will preserve the (sometimes Kantian) insights of Marx without falling into the Marxist notion that moral philosophy is simply bourgeois ’ideology’? A distinguished contribution to the Kant renaissance in political thought ...’ - Patrick Riley, University of Wisconsin, Madison.
Author: Alexander Kaufman
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Keywords: state, kantian, welfare
Number of Pages: 192
Published: 1999-05-27
List price: $221.00
ISBN-10: 0198294670
ISBN-13: 9780198294672
A traditional interpretation holds that Kant’s political theory simply constitutes an account of the constraints which reason places on the state’s authority to regulate external action. Alexander Kaufman argues that this traditional interpretation succeeds neither as a faithful reading of Kant’s texts nor as a plausible, philosophically sound reconstruction of a `Kantian’ political theory. Rather, he argues that Kant’s political theory articulates a positive conception of the state’s role.
Author: Rae Langton
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Keywords: themselves, things, ignorance, humility, kantian
Number of Pages: 248
Published: 2001-03-29
List price: $50.00
ISBN-10: 0199243174
ISBN-13: 9780199243174
In this refreshing and exceptional work, Rae Langton offers a new interpretation and defense of Kant’s doctrine of "things in themselves." Kant distinguishes things in themselves from phenomena, thus making a metaphysical distinction between intrinsic and relational properties of substances. Langton argues that his claim that we have no knowledge of things in themselves is not idealism, but epistemic humility; we have no knowledge of the intrinsic properties of substances. This interpretation vindicates Kant’s scientific realism and shows his primary/secondary quality distinction t
Author: Erich Adickes
Publisher: Burt Franklin
Keywords: bibliography, kantian, german
Published: 1967-06
List price: $40.50
ISBN-10: 0833700170
ISBN-13: 9780833700179
