Kant and the role of pleasure in moral action
By: Iain P.D. Morrisson.
Series: Series in Continental thought -- 35
Publisher: Ohio University Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Athens
Language: eng
Number of pages: 204
ISBN-13: 9780821418307
Subjects: Kant, Immanuel, -- 1724-1804; Moral motivation
Description: "Kant and the Role of Pleasure in Moral Action is part of a new wave of interest in Kant's anthropological (that is, psychological) works. Whereas previous commentators have attempted to understand Kant's feeling of respect by studying the relevant textual evidence in isolation, Morrisson illuminates this evidence by determining what Kant's more general theory of action commits him to regarding moral action. After looking at how Kant's treatment of desire and feeling can be reconciled with his famous account of free maxim-based action, Morrisson argues that respect moves us to moral action in a way that is structurally parallel to the way in which nonmoral pleasure motivates nonmoral action."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p.         ) and index.