Kant, Schopenhauer and morality: recovering the categorical imperative

Addressing the perennial question: why should we be moral? this book argues that we can only give a truly and morally satisfying answer to that question byradically reconfiguring our conception of the self and the way it relates to others. MARK (aka Joss) WALKERhas been a permanent lecturer at the University of Birmingham, UK since 1991, before which he taught at the American University inCairo, Egypt,Thames Polytechnic,England,and the University of Keele, England. INDICE: Preface and Acknowledgements - Introduction: A Great Reversal? - PART I: HOW KANT FAILED TO JUSTIFY HIS CATEGORICAL IMPERATIVE - Justifying Morality - 'Groundwork 3' b An Enigmatic Text - The Second 'Critique - Groundwork2 -' Rational Nature as an End-in-itself? - PART II: HOW KANT SHOULD HAVE JUSTIFIED HIS CATEGORICAL IMPERATIVE - Introduction: Reconstructing 'Groundwork 3' - From Rational Agency to Freedom - From Freedom to the Non-Phenomenal - From Non-Phenomenality to Universality - The Identity of Persons - Recovering theCategorical Imperative - Bibliography - Index - -

• ISBN: 978-0-230-28260-5
• Editorial: Palgrave MacM
• Encuadernacion: Cartoné
• Páginas: 464
• Fecha Publicación: 18/11/2011
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés