Constructions of Reason Explorations of Kant's Practical Philosophy

Name: Constructions of Reason Explorations of Kant's Practical Philosophy
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ISBN: 9780521388160

ISBN-10: 0521388163

ISBN-13: 9780521388160

Edition: 1989

Authors: Onora O'Neill

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Two centuries after they were published, Kant's ethical writings are as much admired and imitated as they have ever been, yet serious and long-standing accusations of internal incoherence remain unresolved. Onora O'Neill traces the alleged incoherences to attempts to assimilate Kant's ethical writings to modern conceptions of rationality, action and rights. When the temptation to assimilate is resisted, a strikingly different and more cohesive account of reason and morality emerges. Kant offers a "constructivist" vindication of reason and a moral vision in which obligations are prior to rights and in which justice and virtue are linked. O'Neill begins by reconsidering Kant's conceptions of…

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List price: $67.99
Copyright year: 1989
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 1/26/1990
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 264
Size: 5.98" wide x 8.98" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.748
Language: English



Preface


List of abbreviations



Reason and critique



Reason and politics in the Kantian enterprise



The public use of reason



Reason and autonomy in Grundlegung III



Action, anthropology and autonomy



Maxims and obligations



Consistency in action



Between consenting adults



Universal laws and ends-in-themselves



Kant after virtue



Kant's ethics and Kantian ethics



The power of example



Children's rights and children's lives



Constructivisms in ethics



The great maxims of justice and charity


References


Index