Kant's Theory of Morals (Princeton Legacy Library, 264)

Aune, Bruce:

ISBN 10: 0691072388 / ISBN 13: 9780691072388

Published by Princeton University Press, 1979

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232 Seiten Fresh and clean copy in good condition. Frisches und sauberes Exemplar in gutem Zustand. Contents: Chapter I - The First Chapter of the Groundwork - The notion of a good will - duty and moral value - maxims, action, and the will - duty and practical law - the moral law - Chapter II - Two Forms of the Moral Law, C1 and C2 - Laws and imperatives - C1 and the Notion of consistent willing - the "Typic" of the moral law, C2 - General remarks on the law C2 - Chapter III - Rational Ends and Moral Autonomy - Kant's Derivation of the formula C3 - On treating rational beings as ends - the formula of autonomy, C4 - Autonomy, freedom, and moral value - Chapter IV: Concluding remarks on the Groundwork - the formula of the kingdom of Ends, C5 - Critical reflections on C5 - Comparison of Kant's Formulas - Critical Remarks on Kant's Moral Theory - CHapter V: The Baisic Principles of Justice - Duties of justice and of virtue - the notion of an externally right action - justice and moral rights - rights and moral value - private and public law - the original social contract - Kant's theory of punishment - Chapter VI - The Basic Principles of Ethics - the basis of ethical obligation - one's own perfection as an obligatory end - the happiness of others as an obligatory end - perfect and imperec tduties - on the genral structure of kant's moral theory ISBN 9780691072388 Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 360.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Kant's Theory of Morals (Princeton Legacy Library, 264)
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Publication Date: 1979
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0691072388
• ISBN 13: 9780691072388
• Binding: , Softcover/Paperback
• Edition: 1. Auflage.
• Condition: Sehr gut
• Seller catalogs:
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Written for the general reader and the student of moral philosophy, this book provides a clear and unified treatment of Kant's theory of morals. Bruce Aune takes into account all of Kant's principal writings on morality and presents them in a contemporary idiom.

Originally published in 1980.

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