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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... connection between them and the reasons they grounded , it would also give substance to that powerful feeling which accompanies so much of our ethical thinking , namely that we are trying to discover something , something to which we ...
... connection in §2 , of who ' we ' were . Human beings ? Normal human beings ? ( ' Normal ' here should give pause . ) Any animals capable of intelligent and purposive behaviour ? Any beings capable of reasoning ? Throughout this , there ...
... connected with survival and reproduction . There are not the same good reasons to expect us to have various conative states with the same content , that is to say conative states satisfied by the same thing . Sociobiology takes us in ...
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