Kant's human being
Subtitle: essays on his theory of human nature
By: Robert B. Louden
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 222
ISBN-13: 9780199768714
Subjects: Human beings; Philosophical anthropology
Description: This title continues and deepens avenues of research first initiated in the author's highly acclaimed book, 'Kant's Impure Ethics'. Drawing on a wide variety of both published and unpublished works spanning all periods of Kant's extensive writing career, the author focuses on Kant's under-appreciated empirical work on human nature, with particular attention to the connections between this body of work and his much-discussed ethical theory.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [203]-216) and index.
Table of contents: title: Kant's virtue ethics; title: Moral strength: virtue as a duty to oneself; title: Kantian moral humility: between Aristotle and Paul; title: "Firm as rock in her own principles" (but not necessarily a Kantian); title: The second part of morals; title: Applying Kant's ethics: the role of anthropology; title: Anthropology from a Kantian point of view: toward a cosmopolitan conception of human nature; title: Making the law visible: the role of examples in Kant's ethics; title: Evil everywhere: the ordinariness of Kantian radical evil; title: "The play of nature": human beings in Kant's geography; title: Becoming human: Kant and the philosophy of education; title: National character via the beautiful and sublime?