Kant and the Role of Pleasure in Moral Action Book

Introduction Methodology and Two Kinds of Ethics 1

I Methodology 4

II Empirical Ethics and A Priori Ethics 7

III The Structure of the Argument 23

Ch. 1 Kant's Psychology in the Nonmoral Context 26

I The Faculty of Desire 28

II Determinations of the Faculty of Desire 36

III Feeling: The Ground of Desire 47

Ch. 2 Desire Formation and Hedonism 56

I The Ambiguous Role of Pleasure in Desire Formation 58

II Reconciling Kant's Distinct Accounts of Desire Formation 65

III Anticipatory Pleasure and the Faculty of Desire 73

Ch. 3 Nonmoral Freedom in Kant 81

I Nonmoral Determinism 82

II Allison and the Incorporation Thesis 86

III The Concept of Nonmoral Freedom 90

Ch. 4 Rational Action: Interests and Maxims 102

I The Incorporation Thesis and Weakness of the Will 103

II Incorporation of Incentives: A Closer Look at the Formation of Nonmoral Interests and Maxims 122

Ch. 5 Respect as an Incentive to Moral Action 133

I Some Readings of Kant on Moral Motivation 134

II Evidence for a Structural Parallel between Moral and Nonmoral Action 135

III The Structure of Moral Motivation 143

Conclusion: Reath and the Question of Motivation 160

I Reath on Respect 161

II Reath and Theories of Action in Kant 165

Notes 171

References 197

Index 203