Noble in Reason, Infinite in Faculty: Themes and Variations in Kants Moral and Religious PhilosophyRoutledge, 10 sep 2012 - 272 pagina's In this bold and innovative new work, Adrian Moore poses the question of whether it is possible for ethical thinking to be grounded in pure reason. In order to understand and answer this question, he takes a refreshing and challenging look at Kant’s moral and religious philosophy. Identifying three Kantian Themes – morality, freedom and religion – and presenting variations on each of these themes in turn, Moore concedes that there are difficulties with the Kantian view that morality can be governed by ‘pure’ reason. He does however defend a closely related view involving a notion of reason as socially and culturally conditioned. In the course of doing this, Moore considers in detail, ideas at the heart of Kant’s thought, such as the categorical imperative, free will, evil, hope, eternal life and God. He also makes creative use of the ideas in contemporary philosophy, both within the analytic tradition and outside it, such as ‘thick’ ethical concepts, forms of life and ‘becoming those that we are’. Throughout the book, a guiding precept is that to be rational is to make sense, and that nothing is of greater value to use than making sense. |
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... Kant for ethical insight with a sensibility informed by a wide range of recent and contemporary philosophers , from Ludwig Wittgenstein through Bernard Williams and Gilles Deleuze ... a particularly helpful account of Kant's philosophy ...
... Kant thinks that this would be intolerable. He is therefore a rationalist. §3 He has more or less satisfactory responses to the first and second objections to rationalism. What about the third? One way to respond to this objection would ...
... Kant. In fact this variation brings us right back to the beginning of the first theme: the authority of reason. Second theme: freedom §1 It is still only an assumption, however, that pure reason can be put to practical use. Even if we ...
... Kant has a vision of the authority of reason that is in some respects deeply attractive , and in others deeply repugnant . §2 He distinguishes between ' hypothetical imperatives ' , which apply to agents by virtue of ends they happen to ...
... Kant's rationalism is very close to Kant's own rationalism after all though it does call into question the idea of ' pure ' reason . §16 In both this reconstruction and the original , rationality demands that we adopt no maxims that we ...
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