The essays collected in this volume by Paul Guyer, one of the world's
foremost Kant scholars, explore Kant's attempt to develop a morality
grounded on the intrinsic and unconditional value of the human freedom
to set our own ends. When regulated by the principle that the freedom
of all is equally valuable, the freedom to set our own ends — what
Kant calls "humanity" - becomes what he calls autonomy. These essays
explore Kant's strategies for establishing the premise that freedom is
the inner worth of the world or the essential end of humankind, as he
says, and for deriving the specific duties that fundamental principle
of morality generates in the empirical circumstances of human
existence. The Virtues of Freedom further investigates Kant's attempts
to prove that we are always free to live up to this moral ideal, that
is, that we have free will no matter what, as well as his more
successful explorations of the ways in which our natural tendencies to
be moral — dispositions to the feeling of respect and more specific
feelings such as love and self-esteem — can and must be cultivated
and educated. Guyer finally examines the various models of human
community that Kant develops from his premise that our associations
must be based on the value of freedom for all. The contrasts but also
similarities of Kant's moral philosophy to that of David Hume but many
of his other predecessors and contemporaries, such as Stoics and
Epicureans, Pufendorf and Wolff, Hutcheson, Kames, and Smith, are also
explored.
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ISBN
9780191072260
Publisert
2020
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OUP Oxford
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Engelsk
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Digital bok
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