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The Blackwell Guide to Kant's Ethics

Hill, Thomas E. (Editor)

Blackwell Guides to Great Works

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1. Edition March 2009
288 Pages, Softcover
Wiley & Sons Ltd

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Part of Blackwell Guides to the Great Works, this exemplary text serves as a companion to understanding Kant's difficult but classic and hugely influential ethical theory. Featuring twelve original essays by outstanding contemporary philosophers reflecting on the best and most up-to-date scholarship on Kantian ethics, it offers comprehensive coverage of Kant's landmark works designed to appeal to a wide student and professional audience, especially those that teach ethics. In addition, the work could help to make Kant's classic writings on ethics more accessible to serious general readers.

ISBN: 978-1-4051-2582-6
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Through a collection of new, previously unpublished essays, The Blackwell Guide to Kant's Ethics addresses diverse topics crucial to our understanding of Kant's moral philosophy and its implications for the modern age.
* Provides a fresh perspective on themes in Kant's moral philosophy
* Addresses systematically Kant's foundational work, Groundwork for the Metaphysics of Morals and his more specific treatment of justice and virtue in The Metaphysics of Morals
* Includes essays by both established scholars and rising stars
* Identifies common misperceptions of Kant's thought and challenges some prevailing interpretations
* Shows how Kant developed and supplemented his earlier ethical thought with specific discussions of practical issues in law, international relations, personal relations, and self-regarding virtues and vices

Acknowledgements.

Notes on Contributors.

Abbreviations of Kant's Works.

Part I: Basic Themes.

Part II: Argument and Critique.

Part III: Justice: Private, Public, and International Right.

Part IV: Virtue: Love, Respect, and Duties to Oneself.

Part V: Retrospective.

Index.
Thomas E. Hill, Jr. is Kenan Professor of Philosophy at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. His essays on moral and political philosophy are collected in Autonomy and Self-Respect (1991), Dignity and Practical Reason in Kant's Moral Theory (1992), Respect, Pluralism, and Justice: Kantian Perspectives (2000), and Human Welfare and Moral Worth: Kantian Perspectives (2002). With Arnulf Zweig he co-edited a new edition of Kant's Groundwork for the Metaphysics of Morals with extensive notes (2002).

T. E. Hill, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, USA