Kant's Metaphysics of Morals: A Critical Guide

by Edited by Lara Denis

• ISBN13: 9780521513937
• ISBN10: 0521513936
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2010-11-29
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Summary

Immanuel Kant's Metaphysics of Morals (1797), containing the Doctrine of Right and Doctrine of Virtue, is his final major work of practical philosophy. Its focus is not rational beings in general but human beings in particular, and it presupposes and deepens Kant's earlier accounts of morality, freedom, and moral psychology. In this volume of newly-commissioned essays, a distinguished team of contributors explores the Metaphysics of Morals in relation to Kant's earlier works, as well as examining themes which emerge from the text itself. Topics include the relation between right and virtue, property, punishment, and moral feeling. Their diversity of questions, perspectives and approaches will provide new insights into the work for scholars in Kant's moral and political theory.

Table of Contents

Notes on contributors	p. vii
Acknowledgements	p. ix
List of translations and abbreviations	p. x
Introduction	p. 1
Kant's Metaphysics of Morals: the history and significance of its deferral	p. 9
Reason, desire, and the will	p. 28
Justice without virtue	p. 51
Kant's innate right as a rational criterion for human rights	p. 71
Intelligible possession of objects of choice	p. 93
Punishment, retribution, and the coercive enforcement of right	p. 111
Moral feelings in the Metaphysics of Morals	p. 130
What is the enemy of virtue?	p. 152
Freedom, primacy, and perfect duties to oneself	p. 170
Duties to and regarding others	p. 192
Duties regarding animals	p. 210
Kant's Tugendlehre as normative ethics	p. 234
Bibliography	p. 256
Index	p. 264
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