Highest Good in Kant's Philosophy.
The idea of a final end of human conduct - the highest good - plays an important role in Kant's philosophy. Unlike his predecessors Kant defines the highest good as a combination of two heterogeneous elements, namely virtue and happiness. This conception lies at the centre of some of the most i...
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| Language: | English |
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De Gruyter,
2016.
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| ISBN: | 3110369001 9783110369007 9783110369014 311036901X |
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Table of Contents:
- Acknowledgments ; Introduction ; Abbreviations and Methods of Reference ; Notes on Contributors ; I. The Concept of the Highest Good and its Place in Kant's Moral Theory ; The Highest Good and the Notion of the Good as Object of Pure Practical Reason.
- Kant on 'Good', the Good, and the Duty to Promote the Highest Good Kant on Happiness and the Duty to Promote the Highest Good ; "Mixtum Compositum": On the Persistence of Kant's Dualism in the Doctrine of the Highest Good ; The Determination of the Concept of the Highest Good.
- II. Kant's Moral Arguments and the Postulates of Pure Practical Reason God, the Highest Good, and the Rationality of Faith: Reflections on Kant's Moral Proof of the Existence of God ; Kant on "Moral Arguments": What Does the Objectivity of a Postulate of Pure Practical Reason Consist In?
- Kant, Mendelssohn, and Immortality Life without Death: Why Kantian Agents Are Committed to the Belief in Their Own Immortality ; III. Epistemology, Science, and Metaphysics ; Kant on Opinion, Belief, and Knowledge.