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Preface | xi | |
Key to abbreviations and translators | xvii | |
1 | Introduction | 1 |
Immanuel Kant's life | 1 | |
Kant's audiences | 3 | |
Kant's respect for ordinary moral thinking | 4 | |
Kant's debt to Pietism | 6 | |
Kant and the Enlightenment | 7 | |
2 | The context for Kant's moral philosophy | 11 |
Kant's response to skepticism | 12 | |
A priori and a posteriori knowledge claims | 14 | |
Can there be synthetic a priori judgments? | 15 | |
Ideas of reason | 17 | |
Questions of methodology | 19 | |
Part I | The nature of morality | |
3 | The nature of human action | 23 |
The exercise of causal power | 24 | |
Always goal directed | 24 | |
The presence of desires | 26 | |
Practical rules | 28 | |
The task ahead | 29 | |
4 | Prudence: taking care of our own interests | 31 |
Desires, inclinations, and self-interest | 31 | |
Prudential reasoning | 32 | |
Technical imperatives | 34 | |
Prudential imperatives | 35 | |
The amorality of prudence | 37 | |
Past errors | 39 | |
What can be learned | 41 | |
5 | Morality: living autonomously | 44 |
Freedom | 44 | |
Autonomy | 46 | |
Moral rules | 47 | |
The Categorical Imperative | 49 | |
Obligatory, forbidden, or permissible | 50 | |
Narrow and wide duties | 51 | |
Moral judgment | 54 | |
Erroneous moral judgments | 57 | |
The infallibility of conscience | 60 | |
6 | Morally obligatory ends | 63 |
Objective ends | 64 | |
Right actions | 66 | |
A "good will" | 68 | |
Kinds of practical goods | 68 | |
A system of obligatory ends | 70 | |
Conflicts between moral rules | 72 | |
7 | The defense of morality | 76 |
How is morality possible? | 77 | |
Why this is a problem | 79 | |
Kant's first argument: Part I | 81 | |
Kant's first argument: Part II | 85 | |
Kant's second argument | 88 | |
Relating the two viewpoints | 90 | |
Metaphysical questions | 93 | |
8 | The primacy of morality | 95 |
A brief history | 96 | |
The grounds for primacy | 97 | |
The limitations of theoretical reasoning | 98 | |
Superior cognitive power | 102 | |
Superior conative power | 103 | |
What primacy means | 104 | |
Unity under a common principle | 109 | |
Another quest | 112 | |
Part II | The moral norm for persons | |
9 | Moral character: Part I | 117 |
Merely pathological desires | 118 | |
Conflicts between reason and desire | 119 | |
Duty | 121 | |
Virtue | 122 | |
Mixed motivation | 122 | |
The "radical evil" in human nature | 124 | |
The nature of moral character | 126 | |
Kinds of moral character | 129 | |
10 | Moral character: Part II | 131 |
Moral interest | 131 | |
Moral sentiments | 132 | |
Respect for the moral law | 133 | |
The range of moral emotions | 135 | |
The spirit of virtue | 136 | |
Moral fanaticism | 137 | |
Morally indifferent and permissible actions | 138 | |
Holiness an obligatory end | 139 | |
The postulate of immortality | 141 | |
The postulates of God and of grace | 142 | |
Metaphysical questions | 144 | |
Part III | The norm for moral judgment | |
11 | The Categorical Imperative | 149 |
Ease of use | 150 | |
The problem | 151 | |
The principle of noncontradiction | 151 | |
The derivation | 153 | |
Problematic texts | 157 | |
Empirical content | 159 | |
Problems with maxims | 160 | |
The necessary and sufficient norm | 163 | |
Not a prudential norm | 163 | |
12 | The Formula of Autonomy or of Universal Law: Part I | 165 |
Self-constraint | 165 | |
Practical lawfulness | 166 | |
Testing the maxim of a lying promise | 167 | |
Kant's doctrine concerning lies | 170 | |
Kant's infamous reply to Constant | 173 | |
Consistency with other maxims | 178 | |
13 | The Formula of Autonomy or of Universal Law: Part II | 180 |
The principle of physicoteleology | 181 | |
Kant's transformation of the tradition | 182 | |
Obligatory natural ends | 184 | |
Kant's examples | 186 | |
Another example | 188 | |
Problems with such ends | 190 | |
Culture and morality | 191 | |
14 | The Formula of Respect for the Dignity of Persons | 193 |
Persons and things | 195 | |
Respect for persons | 198 | |
Self-respect | 200 | |
Our own happiness | 202 | |
Respect for others | 203 | |
Problems | 209 | |
15 | The Formula of Legislation for a Moral Community | 212 |
A moral community | 214 | |
The ethical community: a church | 216 | |
The supreme good and the complete good | 218 | |
Not a norm of moral judgment | 222 | |
The postulates of God and immortality | 223 | |
A problem | 226 | |
Part IV | Kant on history, polities, and religion | |
16 | Autonomy and the state | 233 |
Problems confronting Kant's political theory | 234 | |
Kant's philosophy of history | 235 | |
The genesis of the state | 239 | |
Autonomy and political coercion | 241 | |
Crime and punishment | 243 | |
No right to revolution | 244 | |
17 | Civil justice and republicanism | 246 |
The Principle of Right (Recht) | 247 | |
Kinds of laws | 248 | |
The Principle of Publicity | 249 | |
"Private morality" | 250 | |
Morality and politics | 251 | |
The ideal state: a republic | 252 | |
Principles of a republican government | 254 | |
Perpetual peace and a league of nations | 256 | |
Kant's moral and political theories | 258 | |
The value of the political life | 259 | |
18 | Kant's philosophy of religion | 261 |
"The philosopher of Protestantism" | 262 | |
The church | 265 | |
Original Sin | 268 | |
Grace and justification | 270 | |
Conclusion | 273 | |
Appendixes | ||
1 | Kant's two-viewpoints doctrine | 279 |
"Morally indifferent" freedom | 279 | |
Autonomous freedom | 281 | |
Heteronomous freedom | 284 | |
2 | Kant's philosophy of moral education | 287 |
A Moral catechism | 289 | |
Developing moral judgment | 291 | |
Practice in moral discipline | 292 | |
Notes | 295 | |
Bibliography | 384 | |
Index of names | 397 | |
Index of subjects | 401 |
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