Value in Kant's Ethics: In Defense of a Value-Based Deontology

Dissertation, The University of Memphis (2001)
  Copy   BIBTEX

Abstract

Kant's ethics is traditionally categorized and defended as deontological. Recent scholarship has left this tradition, arguing variously that Kantians should leave deontology behind, or that Kant had a teleological ethics, or that the best Kantian position is a consequentialist one. In this dissertation, I articulate and defend a middle path between these interpretations and defenses. I argue that Kant's ethics is, and Kantian ethics ought to be, a value-based deontology. In Part One, I argue that contrary to conventional discussion, deontology can be value-based. In Part Two, I interpret Kant's ethics as a value-based deontology, and I defend it as such, both against the traditional and more contemporary alternates. Finally, in Part Three, I defend Kantian value-based deontology from various attacks that might be posed against it

Links

PhilArchive



    Upload a copy of this work     Papers currently archived: 90,616

External links

  • This entry has no external links. Add one.
Setup an account with your affiliations in order to access resources via your University's proxy server

Through your library

Similar books and articles

In defense of deontology and Kant: A reply to Van staveren.Mark D. White - 2009 - Review of Political Economy 21 (2):315-323.
The Demands of Deontology Are Not So Paradoxical.Judith Andre - 1991 - Journal of Philosophical Research 16:407-410.
Virtue Ethics and Environs.James Griffin - 1998 - Social Philosophy and Policy 15 (1):56.
The Interconnection between Willing and Believing for Kant’s and Kantian Ethics.Samuel Kahn - 2014 - International Philosophical Quarterly 54 (2):143-157.
On the Human Body in Igor Kiss's Humanized Deontology.V. Gluchman - 2012 - Christian Bioethics 18 (3):312-324.

Analytics

Added to PP
2015-02-04

Downloads
4 (#1,426,706)

6 months
1 (#1,042,085)

Historical graph of downloads
How can I increase my downloads?

Author's Profile

Joshua Glasgow
Sonoma State University

Citations of this work

No citations found.

Add more citations

References found in this work

No references found.

Add more references