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16Kant's deontological eudaemonism: the dutiful pursuit of virtue and happinessOxford University Press. 2022.In this book, Professor Jeanine Grenberg defends the idea that Kant's virtue theory is best understood as a system of eudaemonism, indeed, as a distinctive form of eudaemonism that makes it preferable to other forms of it: a system of what she calls Deontological Eudaemonism. In Deontological Eudaemonism, one achieves happiness both rationally conceived and empirically conceived only via authentic commitment to and fulfilment of what is demanded of all rational beings: making persons as such one…Read more
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7Deontological EudaemonismIn Camilla Serck-Hanssen & Beatrix Himmelmann (eds.), The Court of Reason: Proceedings of the 13th International Kant Congress, De Gruyter. pp. 1431-1438. 2021.
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12Critique, Finitude and the Importance of Susceptibility: A Rossian Approach to Interpreting Kant on PleasurePhilosophia 49 (5): 1853-1874. 2021.In this paper, I take Philip Rossi’s robust interpretation of critique as an interpretive guide for thinking generally about how to interpret Kant’s texts. I reflect first upon what might appear to be a minor technical issue: how best to translate the term Fähigheit when Kant utilizes it in reference to the human experience of pleasure and displeasure. Reflection upon this technical issue will, however, end up being a case study in how important it is when we are interpreting Kant’s texts to hav…Read more
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29Review 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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13Autonomous 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): 1335-1346. 2019.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 contradictio...
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3A Defense of First-Personal Phenomenological Experience: Responses to Sticker and SaundersCon-Textos Kantianos 8 370-376. 2018.In this paper, I respond to questions Sticker and Saunders raise about integrating third-personal interactions within my phenomenological first-personal account of moral obligatedness. Sticker argues that third-personal interactions are more central for grounding moral obligatedness than I admit. Saunders turns things around and suggests we might not even be able to access third-personal interactions with others at the level one would need to in order to secure proper moral interactions with the…Read more
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2Response to Frierson’s “Kantian Feeling: Empirical Psychology, Transcendental Critique and Phenomenology”Con-Textos Kantianos 3 372-380. 2016.In this paper, I reject Frierson’s interpretation of Kantian reductionist phenomenology. I diagnose his failure to articulate a more robust notion of phenomenology in Kant as traceable to a misguided effort to protect pure reason from the undue influence of sensibility. But in fact Kant himself relies regularly on a phenomenological and felt first personal perspective in his practical philosophy. Once we think more broadly about what Frierson calls “the space of reasons,” we must admit a robust …Read more
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25Autonomous 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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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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57Courageous Humility in Jane Austen’s Mansfield ParkSocial Theory and Practice 33 (4): 645-666. 2007.
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1Moral Feeling and Human Autonomy: A Kantian Account of ActionDissertation, Emory University. 1996.Bernard Williams has recently taken Kant to task for his apparent inability to account for the moral import of emotions. Rigid adherence to Kant's austere "motive of duty," says Williams, undermines any possibility of integrity of character, since it demands that an agent's moral life be alienated from her emotional life. ;Providing an adequate response to Williams' critiques on these issues will require a revision of our understanding of Kant's conceptions of action and of freedom. The "Incorpo…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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16Kant's Compatibilism (review)Journal 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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1Humility, Kantian styleIn S. van Hooft, N. Athanassoulis, J. Kawall, J. Oakley & L. van Zyl (eds.), The handbook of virtue ethics, Acumen Publishing. 2014.
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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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14John W. Yolton: The Two Intellectual Worlds of John Locke (review)Faith and Philosophy 24 (1): 107-109. 2007.
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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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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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25Naturalism 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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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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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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3Autonomy and Community: Readings in Contemporary Kantian Social Philosophy (review) (review)Journal 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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13Kant’s Theory of Action, by Richard McCarty.: Book Reviews (review)Mind 119 (476): 1198-1205. 2010.
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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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187Feeling, 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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