Kant's theory of action
By: Richard McCarty.
Publisher: Oxford University Press; Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 250
ISBN-13: 9780199567720
Subjects: Kant, Immanuel, -- 1724-1804; Act (Philosophy); Agent (Philosophy); Ethics
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Acting on maxims; title: Action; title: Maxims; title: The practical syllogism; title: Intentions; title: Desires; title: Will; title: Choice and wish; title: Faculty of choice; title: Imperatives; title: Reasons for action; title: Justification and explanation; title: Incentives; title: Logical and psychological force; title: Incorporating incentives; title: Moral weakness; title: Causes of desire; title: Causes of choice; title: Practical pleasure; title: Interest; title: Motivational hedonism; title: Moral feeling; title: The classical model; title: Free choice; title: Psychological determinism; title: Affected but not determined; title: The incorporation thesis; title: The question just posed; title: Adopting maxims; title: Incentive strength; title: Strength of desire; title: Types of choice; title: Choice and explanation; title: Another look at Willkur; title: Acting in two worlds; title: Causation in time; title: Cause and world; title: Noumenal action; title: Timeless causation; title: Personal identity; title: Metaphysical egoism; title: Panlibertarianism; title: Timeless agency; title: Character from two standpoints; title: Standpoints; title: Neutral objects; title: Justification and explanation revisited; title: A deterministic account of moral motivation; title: Causation and character; title: Empirical and intelligible character; title: The allegory of the play; title: Ought implies can; title: Moral objections; title: Moral motivation; title: Moral incentives; title: The feeling of respect; title: Motivating feeling; title: Phenomenology of respect; title: Feeling and character; title: Acting from duty; title: Choosing motives; title: Moral worth and virtue; title: Senses of virtue; title: Ends of virtue; title: The moral life; title: Evil nature, good will; title: Radical evil; title: Gesinnung; title: Explaining evil; title: Evil in three degrees; title: From bad to better; title: Views on the good will; title: Good will in groundwork I; title: Moral strength; title: Personality; title: Good will and virtue; title: Conclusion: Grounds for hope.