Kantian Ethics

Kantian Ethics
Author: Robert Stern
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 433
Release: 2015-10-29
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 0191033669

This volume presents a selection of Robert Stern's work on the theme of Kantian ethics. It begins by focusing on the relation between Kant's account of obligation and his view of autonomy, arguing that this leaves room for Kant to be a realist about value. Stern then considers where this places Kant in relation to the question of moral scepticism, and in relation to the principle of 'ought implies can', and examines this principle in its own right. The papers then move beyond Kant himself to his wider influence and to critics of his work, including Hegel, the British Idealists, and the Danish philosopher and theologian K. E. Løgstrup, while also offering a comparison with William James's arguments for freedom. The collection concludes with a consideration of a broadly Kantian critique of divine command ethics offered by Stephen Darwall, arguing that the critique does not succeed. General themes considered in this volume therefore include value, perfectionism, agency, autonomy, moral motivation, moral scepticism, and obligation, as well as the historical place of Kant's ethics and its influence on thinkers up to the present day.

Understanding Moral Obligation

Understanding Moral Obligation
Author: Robert Stern
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 293
Release: 2011-12-15
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 1139505017

In many histories of modern ethics, Kant is supposed to have ushered in an anti-realist or constructivist turn by holding that unless we ourselves 'author' or lay down moral norms and values for ourselves, our autonomy as agents will be threatened. In this book, Robert Stern challenges the cogency of this 'argument from autonomy', and claims that Kant never subscribed to it. Rather, it is not value realism but the apparent obligatoriness of morality that really poses a challenge to our autonomy: how can this be accounted for without taking away our freedom? The debate the book focuses on therefore concerns whether this obligatoriness should be located in ourselves (Kant), in others (Hegel) or in God (Kierkegaard). Stern traces the historical dialectic that drove the development of these respective theories, and clearly and sympathetically considers their merits and disadvantages; he concludes by arguing that the choice between them remains open.

Social Institutions and the Politics of Recognition

Social Institutions and the Politics of Recognition
Author: Tony Burns
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages: 259
Release: 2020-08-19
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1786605708

This second volume continues the story told in the first by focusing on the writings of a selection of seminal thinkers in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, in England, the German speaking world and in France, ending with the debate around the French Revolution of 1789. Tony Burns discusses the work of Thomas Hobbes, John Selden, Sir Matthew Hale, John Locke, Samuel Clarke, Johannes Althusius, Samuel Pufendorf, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, Jean Barbeyrac, the anonymous author of Militaire philosophe, Claude Buffier, l’abbé de Saint-Pierre, Jean-Jacques Burlamaqui, Montesquieu, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, l’abbé de Sieyès, Jeremy Bentham, Immanuel Kant, Mary Wollstonecraft and Claude-Henri de Saint-Simon. The author concludes with an analysis of the concept of administration in the writings of Saint-Simon, as a point of transition to the discussion of the themes of bureaucracy, technocracy and managerialism in the third volume.

Encyclopedia of Ethics: P-W

Encyclopedia of Ethics: P-W
Author: Lawrence C. Becker
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 734
Release: 2001
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 9780415936750

A revised, expanded and updated edition with contributions by 325 renowned authorities in the field of ethics. All of the original articles have been newly peer-reviewed and revised, bibliographies have been updated throughout, and the overall design of the work has been enhanced for easier access to cross-references and other reference features.

The Cambridge Companion to Pufendorf

The Cambridge Companion to Pufendorf
Author: Knud Haakonssen
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 443
Release: 2022-11-17
Genre: Law
ISBN: 1108472699

Comprehensive coverage of one of the greatest early-modern thinkers in philosophy, political and legal theory, theology and history.

Just Property

Just Property
Author: Christopher Pierson
Publisher:
Total Pages: 302
Release: 2013-08-15
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0199673284

Traces the complex lineages of thinking about private property from ancient to modern times. It challenges a number of deep-seated assumptions we make about the incontestability of private property by building a careful and extended account of where these assumptions came from.

Freedom and History and Other Essays

Freedom and History and Other Essays
Author: Richard P. McKeon
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Total Pages: 308
Release: 1990
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9780226560298

This volume of essays is an important introduction to the thought of one of the twentieth century's most significant yet underappreciated philosophers, Richard McKeon. The originator of philosophical pluralism, McKeon made extraordinary contributions to philosophy, to international relations, and to theory-formation in the communication arts, aesthetics, the organization of knowledge, and the practical sciences. This collection, which includes a philosophical autobiography as well as the out-of-print title essay "Freedom and History" and a previously unpublished essay on "Philosophic Semantics and Philosophic Inquiry," is a testimony to the range and systematic power of McKeon's thinking for the social sciences and the humanities.

Grotius, Pufendorf and Modern Natural Law

Grotius, Pufendorf and Modern Natural Law
Author: Knud Haakonssen
Publisher: Dartmouth Publishing Company
Total Pages: 616
Release: 1999
Genre: Law
ISBN:

The International Library of Critical Essays in the History of Philosophy makes available in a systematic manner essays in the history of philosophy selected and presented by volume editors who are highly respected in their fields.