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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... someone might be asking , ' How can you and I find anything worth living for - now that this has happened ? ' Even when the question is posed in a work of philosophy , with theoretical aspirations , there are many things that might be ...
... , at least when it is stated so baldly . Much depends on what the criteria of successful proof are . Certainly , where the latter disputes are concerned , there is no question of forcing the agreement of someone 2 Introduction.
... someone who is not appropriately receptive . In fact you are dealing with someone who is sick . That he can disagree with you on this basis has no bearing on the ' provability ' of your own view . But then , what is there to say that ...
... someone in a quiz ) . By contrast , I shall not join in a campaign for the cancellation of Third World debt if I think that there are more pressing demands on my time , or if I am simply too lazy . It is not just that our ethical views ...
... Someone can have a reason for doing something , and can indeed be forced to acknowledge that he has a reason for doing something , even though doing that thing contributes nothing to the satisfaction of any of his ' conative states ...
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