Beyond duty : Kantian ideals of respect, beneficence, and appreciation

Beyond duty : Kantian ideals of respect, beneficence, and appreciation / Thomas E. Hill, Jr.

Of the Deliberative Framework -- Human Dignity -- Positive Ideals of Human Dignity -- Notes -- 8: Kantian Ethics and Utopian Thinking -- Problem Cases: (A) Lying to the Murderer and (B) Torture and the Ticking Bomb -- What Are "Utopias" and (Unwarranted) "Utopian Thinking"? -- So...

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Main Author: Hill, Thomas E. (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2021.
Edition:First edition.
Subjects:
Kant, Immanuel, > 1724-1804.
Kant, Immanuel, > 1724-1804
Ethics, Modern.
Ethics, Modern
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Table of Contents:
  • Cover
  • Beyond Duty: Kantian Ideals of Respect, Beneficence, and Appreciation
  • Copyright
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Part I: Kant and Kantian Perspectives
  • Part II: Practical Ethics
  • Abbreviations for Kant's Works
  • Aims, Abstracts, and Why 'Beyond Duty'?
  • General Remarks
  • Why Beyond Duty?
  • Summary of the Essays
  • Part I: Kant and Kantian Perspectives
  • Part II: Practical Ethics
  • Notes
  • Part I: Kant and Kantian Perspectives
  • 1: The Groundwork
  • Background: From the First Critique to the Groundwork
  • Preface: Aims and Methods
  • Section One: The Principle of a Good Will
  • Section Two: Duty Presupposes the Categorical Imperative and Autonomy of the Will
  • Section Three: Practical Reason Presupposes Autonomy of the Will
  • Questions of Interpretation
  • Notes
  • 2: Imperfect Duties to Oneself
  • Background and General Concepts
  • Ethical duties
  • Duties to oneself
  • Imperfect duties
  • One's Duty to Oneself to Develop One's Natural Powers
  • The content and latitude of the duty to develop natural powers
  • The reason for the duty
  • The role of natural teleology
  • One's Duty to Oneself to Increase One's Moral Perfection
  • Notes
  • 3: Kantian Autonomy and Contemporary Ideas of Autonomy
  • Autonomy of the Will in Kant's Moral Theory
  • Kantian Autonomy as Distinct from Other Influential Conceptions
  • Common Conceptions of Autonomy in Practical Ethics as Distinct from Kant's
  • From Kantian Autonomy to Practical Values and Principles
  • Notes
  • 4: Rüdiger Bittner on Autonomy
  • Introduction
  • Various Senses of Freedom: Bittner's Project to Clean Up Ordinary Language
  • Kantian Autonomy: What Is It, What Are the Problems, and What Can We Retain?
  • Notes
  • 5: Kantian Perspectives on the Rational Basis of Human Dignity
  • What Is Human Dignity?
  • By Virtue of What Is Dignity Attributed to Human Beings?
  • Why Believe in Human Dignity?
  • What Are the Practical Implications?
  • Notes
  • 6: In Defense of Human Dignity: Comments on Kant and Rosen
  • Preliminary Points: Contemporary Resources and Potential Abuse of Theories
  • Can Diverse Ideas of Dignity Be Coherently Unified?
  • Problems of Application: Indeterminacy and Absolutism
  • Metaphysics or Morals?
  • Notes
  • 7: The Kingdom of Ends as an Ideal and a Constraint on Moral Legislation

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