Author: Thomas ClapPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Christian ethics
Languages : en
Pages : 94
Book Description
An Essay on the Nature and Foundation of Moral Virtue and Obligation
Author: Thomas ClapPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Christian ethics
Languages : en
Pages : 94
Book Description
The Virtues of Freedom
Author: Paul GuyerPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0191072265
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 512
Book Description
The essays collected in this volume by Paul Guyer, one of the world's foremost Kant scholars, explore Kant's attempt to develop a morality grounded on the intrinsic and unconditional value of the human freedom to set our own ends. When regulated by the principle that the freedom of all is equally valuable, the freedom to set our own ends -- what Kant calls "humanity" - becomes what he calls autonomy. These essays explore Kant's strategies for establishing the premise that freedom is the inner worth of the world or the essential end of humankind, as he says, and for deriving the specific duties that fundamental principle of morality generates in the empirical circumstances of human existence. The Virtues of Freedom further investigates Kant's attempts to prove that we are always free to live up to this moral ideal, that is, that we have free will no matter what, as well as his more successful explorations of the ways in which our natural tendencies to be moral -- dispositions to the feeling of respect and more specific feelings such as love and self-esteem -- can and must be cultivated and educated. Guyer finally examines the various models of human community that Kant develops from his premise that our associations must be based on the value of freedom for all. The contrasts but also similarities of Kant's moral philosophy to that of David Hume but many of his other predecessors and contemporaries, such as Stoics and Epicureans, Pufendorf and Wolff, Hutcheson, Kames, and Smith, are also explored.
An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Morals
Author: David HumePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Conduct of life
Languages : en
Pages : 202
Book Description
David Hume: A Treatise of Human Nature
Author: David Fate NortonPublisher: OUP Oxford
ISBN: 0191569097
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 752
Book Description
David and Mary Norton present the definitive scholarly edition of one of the greatest philosophical works ever written. This second volume begins with their 'Historical Account' of the Treatise, an account that runs from the beginnings of the work to the period immediately following Hume's death in 1776, followed by an account of the Nortons' editorial procedures and policies and a record of the differences between the first-edition text of the Treatise and the critical text that follows. The volume continues with an extensive set of 'Editors' Annotations', intended to illuminate (though not intepret) Hume's texts; a four-part bibliography of materials cited in both volumes; and a comprehensive index.
British Museum Catalogue of printed Books
Author: A Selection from the Miscellaneous Historical Papers of Fifty Years
Author: Franklin Bowditch DexterPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : New England
Languages : en
Pages : 440
Book Description
Papers of the New Haven Colony Historical Society
Author: New Haven Colony Historical SocietyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Connecticut
Languages : en
Pages : 466
Book Description
Papers
Author: New Haven Colony Historical Society, New HavenPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Connecticut
Languages : en
Pages : 468
Book Description
American Book Prices Current
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Autographs
Languages : en
Pages : 1054
Book Description
A record of literary properties sold at auction in the United States.
Author: Edward Royall Tyler