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344Imagination in Kant's Critique of Practical ReasonJournal of the History of Philosophy 45 (2): 335-336. 2007.Jeanine Grenberg - Imagination in Kant's Critique of Practical Reason - Journal of the History of Philosophy 45:2 Journal of the History of Philosophy 45.2 335-336 Muse Search Journals This Journal Contents Reviewed by Jeanine M. Grenberg St. Olaf College Bernard Freydberg. Imagination in Kant's Critique of Practical Reason. Bloomington-Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 2005. Pp. xiii + 180. Paper, $19.95. At the heart of the task of the historian of philosophy is the effort to interpret w…Read more
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188Feeling, desire and interest in Kant's theory of actionKant Studien 92 (2): 153-179. 2001.Henry Allison's “Incorporation Thesis” has played an important role in recent discussions of Kantian ethics. By focussing on Kant's claim that “a drive [Triebfeder] can determine the will to an action only so far as the individual has incorporated it into his maxim,” Allison has successfully argued against Kant's critics that desire-based non-moral action can be free action. His work has thus opened the door for a wide range of discussions which integrate feeling into moral action more deeply th…Read more
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97Anthropology from a metaphysical point of viewJournal of the History of Philosophy 37 (1): 91-115. 1999.I argue that there can be, on Kant's account, a significant motivational role for feeling in moral action. I first discuss and reject Andrews Reath's claim that Kant is forced to disallow a motivational role for feeling because of his rejection of moral sense theory. I then consider and reject the more general challenge that allowing a role for the influence of feeling on the faculty of desire undermines Kant's commitment to a morality free from anthropological considerations. I conclude by prov…Read more
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79The phenomenological failure of groundwork IIIInquiry: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Philosophy 52 (4). 2009.Henry Allison and Paul Guyer have recently offered interpretations of Kant's argument in Groundwork III. These interpretations share this premise: the argument moves from a non-moral, theoretical premise to a moral conclusion, and the failure of the argument is a failure to make this jump from the non-moral to the moral. This characterization both of the nature of the argument and its failure is flawed. Consider instead the possibility that in Groundwork III, Kant is struggling toward something …Read more
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67Anthropology, History, and Education (review)Journal of the History of Philosophy 47 (3): 474-475. 2009.We are told in the introduction to this volume that what holds together such an apparently diverse collection of essays under a single rubric is the theme of "human nature." And this is fair enough: themes ranging from Kant's reflections on physiology, to his investigation of the vexed notion of what it is that constitutes a race, to his reflections on philosophy of history, to his lectures on pedagogy all fit reasonably enough under the rubric of "human nature." All point us, that is, toward a …Read more
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65Making Sense of the Relationship of Reason and Sensibility in Kant's EthicsKantian Review 16 (3): 461-472. 2011.In this essay, I look at some claims Anne Margaret Baxley makes, in her recent book Kant's Theory of Virtue: The Value of Autocracy, about the relationship between reason and sensibility in Kant's theory of virtue. I then reflect on tensions I find in these claims as compared to the overall goal of her book: an account of Kant's conception of virtue as autocracy. Ultimately, I argue that interpreters like Baxley who want to welcome a more robust role for feeling in Kantian ethics must, in order …Read more
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64Précis of Kant and the ethics of humility: A story of dependence, corruption and virtue (review)Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 75 (3). 2007.
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57Courageous Humility in Jane Austen’s Mansfield ParkSocial Theory and Practice 33 (4): 645-666. 2007.
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50Kant and the Ethics of Humility: A Story of Dependence, Corruption and VirtueCambridge University Press. 2005.In previous years, philosophers have either ignored the virtue of humility or found it to be in need of radical redefinition. But humility is a central human virtue, and it is the purpose of this book to defend that claim from a Kantian point of view. Jeanine Grenberg argues that we can indeed speak of Aristotelian-style, but still deeply Kantian, virtuous character traits. She proposes moving from focus on action to focus on person, not leaving the former behind, but instead taking it up within…Read more
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48Dependent and Corrupt Rational AgencyKant Studien 98 (1): 81-105. 2007.Introduction Recent accounts of humility, such as Norvin Richards', emphatically set aside any “Catholic metaphysics” that might ground the state, finding its view of human nature – one which asks us to consider ourselves as “contemptible” and “foul” – to be deeply problematic. Richards turns instead to an empirical and behavioral analysis of humility, focusing upon an individual agent's awareness of the flaws, failings and limits specific to her to ground humility. For example, when he asks wha…Read more
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37Self-deception and self-knowledge: Jane Austen’s Emma as an Example of Kant’s Notion of Self-DeceptionCon-Textos Kantianos 1 162-176. 2015.In this paper, I address the theme of harmony by investigating that harmony of person necessary for obtaining wisdom. Central to achievement of that harmony is the removal of the unstable, unharmonious presence of self-deception within one’s moral character.
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37Response to Ware and MoyarKantian Review 20 (2): 313-330. 2015.Article Commentary Jeanine Grenberg, Kantian Review, FirstView Article
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33John W. Yolton: The Two Intellectual Worlds of John Locke (review)Faith and Philosophy 24 (1): 107-109. 2007.
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32Kant’s Questions: What is the Human Being? by Patrick R. Frierson (review)Mind 123 (490): 592-598. 2014.
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31Précis of Kant and the Ethics of Humility: A Story of Dependence, Corruption and VirtuePhilosophy and Phenomenological Research 75 (3): 622-623. 2007.
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31Review of Michael Austin, Humility and Human Flourishing: A Study in Analytic Moral Theology, Oxford Univ. Press, 2018 (review)European Journal for Philosophy of Religion 12 (1): 205. 2020.
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30Review: Munzel, Kant's Conception of Moral Character: The Critical Link of Morality, Anthropology and Reflective Judgment (review)Kantian Review 3 146-148. 1999.
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28Naturalism and Realism in Kant's Ethics by Frederick RauscherJournal of the History of Philosophy 55 (2): 354-355. 2017.Making sense of how intelligible notions in Kant's moral philosophy make a place for themselves in the sensible, natural world is perhaps one of the greatest challenges to a Kantian moral philosopher. In this book, Rauscher takes on that question with great aplomb, by looking carefully at an impressive array of Kant's texts, and assessing the extent to which one can say Kant is a realist, or naturalist. Rauscher's intelligent and creative conclusion, in his words, is as follows: I have identifie…Read more
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26Autonomous moral education is Socratic moral education: The Import of repeated activity in moral education out of evil and into virtueEducational Philosophy and Theory 51 (13): 1327-1338. 2018.Kant’s commitment to autonomy raises difficult questions about the very possibility of Kantian moral education, since appeal to external pedagogical guidance threatens to be in contradiction with autonomous virtue. Furthermore, moral education seems to involve getting good at something through repetition; but Kant seems to eschew the notion of repeated natural activity as antithetical to autonomy. Things become even trickier once we remember that Kant also views autonomous human beings as radica…Read more
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26Kant's Defense of Common Moral Experience: A Phenomenological AccountCambridge University Press. 2013.In this book, Jeanine Grenberg argues that everything important about Kant's moral philosophy emerges from careful reflection upon the common human moral experience of the conflict between happiness and morality. Through careful readings of both the Groundwork and the Critique of Practical Reason, Grenberg shows that Kant, typically thought to be an overly technical moral philosopher, in fact is a vigorous defender of the common person's first-personal encounter with moral demands. Grenberg unco…Read more
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25Review: Hudson, Kant's CompatibilismJournal of the History of Philosophy 34 (3): 466-468. 1996.466 JOURNAL OF THE HISTORY OF PHILOSOPHY 34:3 JULY 1996 offered in Rameau's Nephew called into question his long-held conviction that "even in a society as poorly ordered as ours.., there is no better path to happiness than to be a good man," Hulliung tends to assume too quickly that the Nephew's attacks on this belief carry the day . Diderot did, after all, eventually provide the Nephew's antago- nist with some responses and, while these may not always convince us, it is somewhat rash to assume…Read more
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21Patrick R. Frierson, Kant’s Empirical Psychology Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2014 Pp. 288 ISBN 9781107032651 $95.00 (review)Kantian Review 21 (1): 130-137. 2016.
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18Review: Kneller, and Axinn, Autonomy and Community: Readings in Contemporary Kantian Social PhilosophyJournal of the History of Philosophy 37 (3): 538-540. 1999.In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content:Reviewed by:Autonomy and Community: Readings in Contemporary Kantian Social Philosophy ed. by Jane Kneller and Sidney AxinnJeanine GrenbergJane Kneller and Sidney Axinn, editors, Autonomy and Community: Readings in Contemporary Kantian Social Philosophy. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1998. Pp. xi + 334. Paper, $21.95.The intent of this volume is not narrow textual exegesis but the application of Kantian themes to “probl…Read more
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17In Search of the Phenomenal Face of FreedomIn Benjamin J. Bruxvoort Lipscomb & James Krueger (eds.), Kant's Moral Metaphysics: God, Freedom, and Immortality, De Gruyter. pp. 111. 2010.
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