By Otfried Hoeffe, Karl Ameriks
ISBN-10: 0521898714
ISBN-13: 9780521898713
This quantity brings to English readers the best postwar German-language scholarship on Kant's ethical and criminal philosophy. interpreting Kant's relation to predecessors resembling Hutcheson, Wolff, and Baumgarten, it clarifies the valuable concerns in each one of Kant's significant works in functional philosophy, together with The basis of the Metaphysics of Morals, The Critique of functional cause, and The Metaphysics of Morals. It additionally examines the relation of Kant's philosophy to politics. jointly, the essays during this quantity offer English readers with an instantaneous view of ways top German philosophers are actually concerning Kant's progressive sensible philosophy, one of many impressive achievements of German suggestion.
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541). Since they are by nature variable in their degree of intensity and ‘differ infinitely from one another,’ they cannot furnish any ‘uniform standard of good or evil’ (Gr: 4:442).
This overriding concern with having a rationally coherent internal attitude also explains why Kant argues here that hedonism is a policy that leads to conflicts with oneself as well as with other agents, for it lacks necessary consistency and thus is not even “fit for inner legislation” (5: 28). Moreover, in thereby linking freedom in the ‘strictest sense” (5: 29) to the concern for necessary lawfulness that is central to the maxims of a rational will as such, Kant is already anticipating his own doctrine of autonomy.
78. 3 Friedrich Wilhelm Förster, Der Entwicklungsgang der Kantischen Ethik, Berlin 1893. 4 “Der Entwicklungsgang der kantischen Ethik in den Jahren 1760 bis 1785,” KantStudien 2 (1898), 290–322, and 3(1899), 41–104. 5 Paul Arthur Schilpp, Kant’s Pre-Critical Ethics, Evanston Northwestern University Studies No. 2, 1938. 1 Hutcheson and K ant 31 handbooks and has failed to affect the general outlook of the broader circle of readers interested in the field of moral philosophy. The few relevant remarks in Kant’s writings between 1760 and 1770 do seem to support the idea of a major shift of position during this period, particularly because of the quite different assessments of the tradition of British moral philosophy that Kant offers us.
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