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60Kant’s Search for the Supreme Principle of Morality (review)Philosophical Review 113 (2): 272-275. 2004.Kant’s announced aim in the Groundwork for the Metaphysics of Morals is “to seek out and establish the supreme principle of morality.” Kerstein focuses on Kant’s efforts to achieve the first task, which is seeking to identify the only possible supreme principle of morality. Kerstein explicitly sets aside the second task, which is to “establish” the supreme principle as necessary and binding on all rational agents. In other words, Kerstein is concerned with Kant’s “derivation” of the supreme mora…Read more
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60Beneficence and Self-Love: A Kantian Perspective*: THOMAS E. HILL, JRSocial Philosophy and Policy 10 (1): 1-23. 1993.What, if anything, are we morally required to do on behalf of others besides respecting their rights? And why is such regard for others a reasonable moral requirement? These two questions have long been major concerns of ethical theory, but the answers that philosophers give tend to vary with their beliefs about human nature. More specifically, their answers typically depend on the position they take on a third-question: To what extent, if any, is it possible for us to act altruistically?
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60Questions About Kant's Opposition to RevolutionJournal of Value Inquiry 36 (2-3): 283-298. 2002.
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55Conscientious Conviction and ConscienceCriminal Law and Philosophy 10 (4): 677-692. 2016.In this paper, I examine critically Kimberley Brownlee’s descriptive criteria for identifying when a person has a conscientious moral conviction. Then, I contrast her conception of conscience with other ideas of conscience, including a religious conception, a relativist conception, and those of Butler and Kant. The concepts examined here are central in her argument that, if civil disobedience is grounded in citizens’ conscience-based conscientious convictions, then it deserves legal and moral pr…Read more
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45Review: Benton, Kant's Second "critique" and the Problem of Transcendental Arguments (review)Journal of the History of Philosophy 18 (3): 356-357. 1980.
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39Human Welfare and Moral Worth: Kantian PerspectivesClarendon Press. 2002.Thomas Hill, a leading figure in the recent development of Kantian moral philosophy, presents a set of essays exploring the implications of basic Kantian ideas for practical issues. The first part of the book provides background in central themes in Kant's ethics; the second part discusses questions regarding human welfare; the third focuses on moral worth -- the nature and grounds of moral assessment of persons as deserving esteem or blame. Hill shows moral, political, and social philosophers j…Read more
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37Rüdiger Bittner on AutonomyErkenntnis (S7): 1-10. 2013.Rüdiger Bittner surveys with a skeptical eye classic and contemporary ideas of Kantian autonomy. He allows that we can be more or less free in a modest (quasi-Hobbesian) sense and that many people may want more of this freedom from impediments that make it difficult or impossible to do various things. He argues, however, that high-minded general affirmations of human freedom are unfounded and not likely to retain their grip on our thinking. While acknowledging the value of Bittner’s challenges, …Read more
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31The importance of autonomyIn Diana T. Meyers (ed.), Women and Moral Theory, Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. pp. 129--138. 1987.
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28Review: Reath, Agency and Autonomy in Kant's Moral Theory: Legislating the moral law and taking one's choices to be good (review)Philosophical Books 49 (2): 97-106. 2008.
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22Kant's Argument for the Rationality of Moral ConductPacific Philosophical Quarterly 66 (1-2): 3-23. 1985.
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22Gibbard on Morality and SentimentPhilosophy and Phenomenological Research 52 (4): 957-960. 1992.
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19Human Welfare and Moral Worth: Kantian PerspectivesPhilosophical Quarterly 53 (213): 587-595. 2003.
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19The Concept of MeaningRoutledge. 1971.First published in 2002. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
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12IntroductionIn The Blackwell Guide to Kant's Ethics, Wiley-blackwell. 2009.This chapter contains sections titled: The Special Value of a Good Will and Acts from Duty Categorical and Hypothetical Imperatives The Universal Law Formulas The Formula of Humanity as an End in Itself Autonomy and the Kingdom of Ends Deriving the Supreme Moral Principle from Common Moral Ideas Why Kant Needs the Second‐Person Perspective Kant on Law and Justice Kant on Punishment Kant's Vision of a Just World Order Beneficence and Other Duties of Love Duties to Oneself and Duties of Respect to…Read more
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12Treating Persons as Ends: An Essay on Kant's Moral PhilosophyPhilosophical Review 99 (2): 278. 1990.
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10IntroductionIn The Blackwell Guide to Kant's Ethics, Wiley‐blackwell. 2009.This chapter contains sections titled: The Special Value of a Good Will and Acts from Duty Categorical and Hypothetical Imperatives The Universal Law Formulas The Formula of Humanity as an End in Itself Autonomy and the Kingdom of Ends Deriving the Supreme Moral Principle from Common Moral Ideas Why Kant Needs the Second‐Person Perspective Kant on Law and Justice Kant on Punishment Kant's Vision of a Just World Order Beneficence and Other Duties of Love Duties to Oneself and Duties of Respect to…Read more
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9The Stability Problem in Political LiberalismPacific Philosophical Quarterly 75 (3-4): 333-352. 2017.
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9Kantian virtue and virtue ethicsIn Monika Betzler (ed.), Kant's Ethics of Virtues, De Gruyter. pp. 29-60. 2008.
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