The form of practical knowledge
Subtitle: a study of the categorical imperative
By: Stephen Engstrom.
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Cambridge, Mass
Language: eng
Number of pages: 260
ISBN-13: 9780674032873
Subjects: Kant, Immanuel, -- 1724-1804
Description: By developing an account of practical knowledge that situates Kant's ethics within his broader epistemology and rethinks numerous topics in his moral psychology and in his account of practical reason, this book promises to deepen and to reshape our understanding of Kantian ethics.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Part I: Willing as practical knowing; title: The will and practical judgment; title: Fundamental practical judgments : the wish for happiness; title: Part II: From presuppositions of judgment to the idea of a categorical imperative; title: The formal presuppositions of practical judgment; title: Constraints on willing; title: Part III: Interpretation; title: The categorical imperative; title: Applications; title: Conclusion.