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Kant and Sartre Re-Discovering Critical Ethics

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ISBN-10: 0230001505

ISBN-13: 9780230001503

Edition: 2011

Authors: Sorin Baiasu

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This book challenges the standard view of the relationship between Kant's and Sartre's practical philosophies, making a case for regarding Kant as one of Sartre's most significant predecessors. By using an original comparative methodology, the book identifies several fundamental theses of Sartre's practical philosophy despite the common reading of Sartre as a philosopher without a practical philosophy. Furthermore, the book shows that Sartre's practical philosophy proves to be closer to Kant than dominant contemporary Kantian theories are. Starting from the similarities between Kant and Sartre, the book uncovers the project of a critical ethics which is philosophically more compelling than…    
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Book details

List price: $54.99
Copyright year: 2011
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Limited
Publication date: 8/26/2011
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 291
Size: 5.67" wide x 10.25" long x 0.95" tall
Weight: 1.144
Language: English

Sorin Baiasu is a lecturer in philosophy at Keele University in England.

Acknowledgements
Abbreviations and References
Introduction
Historical context
Conceptual context
Kant and Sartre so far
Method
Claims and implications
Overview
Identity and Self-Choice
Kant
Two assumptions of moral accountability
The third paralogism
Numerical identity
The problem of the third paralogism
Turning the paralogism into a valid syllogism
Presuppositions of experience
Transcendental unity of apperception
Sensibility and the understanding
The understanding and objectivity
Character
Revolution in disposition
Sartre and Kant
Impersonal consciousness
Digestive philosophy
Intentionality
The Transcendence of the Ego
Forms of consciousness
Self
The personal
Deliberation
Project
Painting the self
Making Kant and Sartre consistent
Deliberation and radical change
Problems with Sartre's account
A Kantian solution to Sartre's problems
Substantive similarities
A significant difference
Further problems
Freedom and Normativity
Kant
Moral and psychological identity
The third antinomy
Solution: Theoretical freedom
Solution: Practical freedom
Ethical normativity
Practical antinomy
Solution to the practical antinomy
Categorical imperatives
Performing ethical actions
Identity, freedom and moral criterion
Sartre and Kant
Spontaneity
The for-itself's structure
Reflection
Freedom
Freedom and determinism
The eternal subject
Singularity
Ethical normativity
Impure reflection
Bad faith
Being-for-others
Self and others
Ethics and interpersonal relations
A framework for normativity
Against moral codes
Noumena and other persons
A metaethical distinction
Split personality
More about critical ethics
Authority and Progress
Kant
Enlightenment
Political emancipation
Human emancipation
Logical interpretation
Practical interpretation
The problem of justification
The problem of practical judgement
The standard view of practical judgement
Problem of standard view
Ethics and politics
Intention and motivation
Empirical good
External good
Sartre and Kant
Practical freedom and history
The authority of the Categorical Imperative
Ethical experience
Values and imperatives
Radical ethics
The role of interpersonal relations
Values
Negative freedom and autonomy
The law of freedom
Internalization
The fact of reason
Universal history
Ideas of reason
Analytic and dialectical
Social structures
Freedom in the social world
Kantian optimism
Moral progress
A third practical postulate
Dialectical a priori
If and as if
Closing remarks
Conclusion
How to account for unconditional obligations
Kantian constructivism
Problems for constructivism
Kant and Sartre: Similarities
Critical ethics
Conflicting duties
Notes
Bibliography
Index