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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... share . This would not be easy to demonstrate . But that does not mean that it is not true . §4 Another , apparently very different way to answer the question would be by appeal to ' rationalism ' , the thesis that our ethical thinking ...
... share with that notion a basicness which prevents it , even if it is true , from being established . §9 This connects with Kant's belief that we have a fundamental ' respect ' for the moral law , and that our knowing how to put pure ...
... share many of the lineaments of Kant's postulates . §8 There are other ways in which this picture connects with religion . Thus the hope and the belief that the Basic Idea is secure might be sustained by belief in God , where belief in ...
... share . If there were such states , and if these and these alone grounded the ethical reasons that we were supposed to have for adopting certain courses of action or living certain sorts of lives , then conclusion - directed objectivity ...
... share ( perhaps as a matter of necessity ) and that ground all our ethical reasons for doing things - ethically productive conative states . And let us call the thesis that there are ethically productive conative states conative ...
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