Kant, Schopenhauer and Morality: Recovering the Categorical Imperative [electronic resource] /
Walker, M.author.
Addressing the perennial question: why should we be moral? this book argues that we can only give a truly and morally satisfying answer to that question by radically reconfiguring our conception of the self and the way it relates to others.
Includes index.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction : a great reversal? -- Justifying morality -- Groundwork 3 : an enigmatic text -- The second critique -- Groundwork 2 : rational nature as an end-in-itself? -- From rational agency to freedom -- From freedom to non-phenomenal -- From non-phenomenality to universality -- The identity of persons -- Recovering the categorical imperative.
Addressing the perennial question: why should we be moral? this book argues that we can only give a truly and morally satisfying answer to that question by radically reconfiguring our conception of the self and the way it relates to others.
Kant, Immanuel, 1724-1804
Schopenhauer, Arthur, 1788-1860
Ethics.
Movement (Philosophy).
Modern philosophy.
Metaphysics.
Philosophy.
Ethics.
Moral Philosophy.
Philosophical Traditions.
Modern Philosophy.
Metaphysics.
History of Philosophy.