Kant on Absolute Value: A Critical Examination of Certain Key Notions in Kant's 'Groundwork of the Metaphysic of Morals' and of his Ontology of Personal Value

by Patrick Æ. Hutchings

Overview

The thesis of this book, first published in 1972, is that Kant’s notions of ‘absolute worth’, the ‘unconditioned’ and ‘unconditioned worth’ are rationalistic and confused, and that they spoil his ontology of personal value and tend to subvert his splendid idea of the person as an End in himself.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780367135850
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	05/02/2019
Series:	Routledge Library Editions: 18th Century Philosophy , #9
Pages:	348
Product dimensions:	6.12(w) x 9.19(h) x (d)

About the Author

Patrick Æ. Hutchings

Table of Contents

1. Kant, Harris and the Absolute Value 2. Kant, Harris and the Absolute or Sovereign Good 3. The Argument in Kant: I 4. The Argument in Kant: II 5. The Strange New Doctrine 6. The Ends of Reason, of Life and of Duty 7. Virtue and Rewards 8. Interest or Disinterestedness at the Root of Moral Conduct? 9. Kant’s Ontology of Personal Value: A False Absolute 10. Rationality as Value: Towards a Humanistic Ontology