Kant's Moral and Legal Philosophy
Kant's Moral and Legal Philosophy
Karl Ameriks, University of Notre Dame
Otfried Höffe, Eberhard-Karls-Universität Tübingen, Germany
Otfried Höffe, Eberhard-Karls-Universität Tübingen, Germany
April 2009
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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.
- All essays are written by leading German philosophers
- The essays clarify the central concepts in the main texts of Kant's practical philosophy
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April 2009Hardback
9780521898713
342 pages
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Table of Contents
- 1. Introduction Karl Ameriks and Otfried Höffe
- 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 Schönecker
- 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 Höffe
- 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 Förster
- 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 Kühl
- 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.
