Creating the Kingdom of Ends

by Christine M. Korsgaard

• ISBN13: 9780521499620
• ISBN10: 0521499623
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1996-07-28
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Summary

Christine Korsgaard has become one of the leading interpreters of Kant's moral philosophy. She is identified with a small group of philosophers who are intent on producing a version of Kant's moral philosophy that is at once sensitive to its historical roots while revealing its particular relevance to contemporary problems. She rejects the traditional picture of Kant's ethics as a cold vision of the moral life which emphasises duty at the expense of love and value. Rather, Kant's work is seen as providing a resource for addressing not only the metaphysics of morals, but also for tackling practical questions about personal relations, politics, and everyday human interaction. This collection contains some of the finest current work on Kant's ethics and will command the attention of all those involved in teaching and studying moral theory.

Table of Contents

Introduction	ix
Abbreviations for Kant's works	xvii
PART ONE KANT'S MORAL PHILOSOPHY
An introduction to the ethical, political, and religious thought of Kant	3	(40)
Kant's analysis of obligation: The argument of Groundwork I	43	(34)
Kant's Formula of Universal Law	77	(29)
Kant's Formula of Humanity	106	(27)
The right to lie: Kant on dealing with evil	133	(26)
Morality as freedom	159	(29)
Creating the Kingdom of Ends: Reciprocity and responsibility in personal relations	188	(37)
PART TWO COMPARATIVE ESSAYS
Aristotle and Kant on the source of value	225	(24)
Two distinctions in goodness	249	(26)
The reasons we can share: An attack on the distinction between agent-relative and agent-neutral values	275	(36)
Skepticism about practical reason	311	(24)
Two arguments against lying	335	(28)
Personal identity and the unity of agency: A Kantian response to Parfit	363	(36)
Bibliography	399	(8)
Sources	407	(4)
Other publications by the author	411	(2)
Index	413	(24)
Index of citations	437