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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... further into question. §17 In the reconstruction, rationality also demands that we seek concepts that enable us to make sense. We must realize that the world itself does not make sense: we have to make sense of it. §18 The demand to be ...
... further insists that the basic demands of morality are categorical imperatives . If they were not , they would have to be contingent on something , and Kant thinks that this would be intolerable . He is therefore a rationalist . §3 He ...
... further say that a ' law ' is a resolution that qualifies as a maxim in the first of these two ways , then it is irrational to adopt a maxim that is not either already a law or capable of becoming a law through suitable developments in ...
... further into question . §17 In the reconstruction , rationality also demands that we seek concepts that enable us to make sense . We must realize that the world itself does not make sense : we have to make sense of it . §18 The demand ...
... further ' So what ? ' But does it not in any case have the absurd consequence - call this the Radical Conception that nobody ever freely does the wrong thing , that is the irrational thing ? No ; being subject to demands is different ...
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