An essay on Kant's theory of evil
Subtitle: the dangers of self-love and the aprioricity of history
By: Pablo Muchnik.
Publisher: Lexington Books
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Lanham, Md
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780739140161; 9780739140185
Subjects: Kant, Immanuel, -- 1724-1804; Good and evil
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: On the alleged vacuity of Kant's concept of evil; title: Skepticism about the notion of evil; title: The criterion for evaluating actions; title: The imputation of action; title: Necessitation; title: The structure of justification; title: Maxims and laws; title: Universality; title: Unconditionality; title: Unconditionality and moral worth; title: The criterion for evaluating persons; title: Radical evil and the architectonic of practical reason; title: A brief genealogy of evil's radicalism; title: Logical independence; title: "Change but the name ..."; title: Practical illusion; title: The need of a formal proof; title: Kant's dilemma : a deduction, dispensable or trivial; title: Conceptual stratification; title: Kant's failed attempt; title: The architectonic of practical reason; title: The organizing principle of the dialectic part of the architectonic; title: The challenge of teleology; title: The highest good as a total object; title: A failure in subordination; title: An alternative proof for the propensity; title: The vice of subreption; title: The lay out of the architectonic; title: Radical evil, inscrutability, and moral self-constitution; title: The system of inferences; title: The problem of discernment; title: Moral cognition; title: Inscrutability; title: Justification reconsidered; title: Unifying principles; title: Will-and-object directed intentions; title: The "I will"; title: Key to some puzzles; title: Neither a brute nor a devil; title: Devilishness reconsidered; title: Self-love as a "thick" moral principle; title: Banality reconsidered; title: The moral anthropology of radical evil; title: Kant's moral anthropology; title: A three-layer model of moral constitution; title: Man's heart; title: Humanity as a self-transformative structure; title: The historicity of the predispositions to good; title: The aprioricity of the predispositions to good; title: Animality; title: Humanity; title: Personality; title: Propensities to evil; title: Frailty; title: Impurity; title: Wickedness.