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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... involves ' any concept that one must possess in order to adopt it . And let us say that a resolution ' is answerable to ' any practice required by any concept it involves . Then a maxim is a resolution to do something that either counts ...
... involve reflecting on what our forms of life have been . §14 It will involve reflecting on what our forms of life are . §15 And it will involve reflecting on what our forms of life may yet be ; on what radically new concepts we may yet ...
... than creating new possibilities , it still enjoys a radical unpredictability . It is like seeing certain colours for the first time . §4 Irrationality , on this picture , involves succumbing to Analytical table of contents xvii.
... involves succumbing to non - rational forces . §5 Let us now consider an idea that is crucial to this enquiry - call it the Basic Idea that there is a nisus in all of us , more fundamental than any other , towards rationality . §6 This ...
... involve normative reasons that outstripped our conative states in the supposedly objectionable way indicated . If , furthermore , the conative states in question were states that we not only shared but could not help sharing , then this ...
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