Kant's Moral Metaphysics: God, Freedom, and ImmortalityBenjamin J. Bruxvoort Lipscomb, James Krueger Morality has traditionally been understood to be tied to certain metaphysical beliefs: notably, in the freedom of human persons (to choose right or wrong courses of action), in a god (or gods) who serve(s) as judge(s) of moral character, and in an afterlife as the locus of a "final judgment" on individual behavior. Some scholars read the history of moral philosophy as a gradual disentangling of our moral commitments from such beliefs. Kant is often given an important place in their narratives, despite the fact that Kant himself asserts that some of such beliefs are necessary (necessary, at least, from the practical point of view). Many contemporary neo-Kantian moral philosophers have embraced these "disentangling" narratives or, at any rate, have minimized the connection of Kant's practical philosophy with controversial metaphysical commitments - even with Kant's transcendental idealism. This volume re-evaluates those interpretations. It is arguably the first collection to systematically explore the metaphysical commitments central to Kant's practical philosophy, and thus the connections between Kantian ethics, his philosophy of religion, and his epistemological claims concerning our knowledge of the supersensible. |
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
CHAPTER 1 Reality Reason and Religion in the Development of Kants Ethics | 23 |
CHAPTER 2 Moral Imperfection and Moral Phenomenology in Kant | 49 |
CHAPTER 3 Two Standpoints and the Problem of Moral Anthropology | 83 |
CHAPTER 4 In Search of the Phenomenal Face of Freedom | 111 |
Kant and the Faith of Reason | 133 |
CHAPTER 6 Duties Ends and the Divine Corporation | 149 |
A Problem and Kants Three Solutions | 177 |
CHAPTER 8 Practical Cognition Intuition and the Fact of Reason | 211 |
The Role of Common Sense in Kants Epistemology of Religious Belief | 233 |
CHAPTER 10 Kant on the Hiddenness of God | 255 |
CHAPTER 11 Kants Account of Practical Fanaticism | 291 |
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Kant's Moral Metaphysics: God, Freedom, and Immortality Benjamin Bruxvoort Lipscomb,James Krueger No preview available - 2016 |
Kant's Moral Metaphysics: God, Freedom, and Immortality Benjamin J. Bruxvoort Lipscomb,James Krueger No preview available - 2010 |