Kant on Morality, Humanity, and Legality: Practical Dimensions of Normativity

by Ansgar Lyssy (Editor), Christopher Yeomans (Editor)

Overview

It was not so long ago that the dominant picture of Kant’s practical philosophy was forma­listic, focusing almost exclusively on his Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals and Critique of Practical Reason. However, the overall picture of Kant’s wide-ranging philosophy has since been broadened and deepened. We now have a much more complete understanding of the range of Kant’s practical interests and of his contributions to areas as diverse as anthropology, peda­gogy, and legal theory. What remains somewhat obscure, however, is how these different contributions hang together in the way that Kant suggests that they must. This book explores these different conceptions of humanity, morality, and legality in Kant as main ‘manifestations’ or ‘dimensions’ of practical normativity. These interrelated terms play a cru­cial role in highlighting different rational obligations, their source(s), and their appli­cability in the face of changing circumstances.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9783030540524
Publisher:	Springer International Publishing
Publication date:	10/30/2020
Edition description:	1st ed. 2021
Pages:	280
Product dimensions:	5.83(w) x 8.27(h) x (d)

About the Author

Ansgar Lyssy is a researcher at the University of Heidelberg, Germany.

Christopher Yeomans is Professor of Philosophy at Purdue University, USA.

Table of Contents

1.Introduction: Dimensions of Normativity

Part I: Morality

2. ‘Why be moral?’: How to take the question seriously (and why) from a Kantian perspective’

3. Deceptive unity and productive disunity: Kant’s account of situated moral selves

4. It’s All About Power: The Deep Structure of Kant’s Categorical Imperative and its Three Formulations

5. Categorical Imperative and Human Nature, by Oliver Sensen

Part II: Humanity

6. Motivating Humanity

7. Humans-Only Norms: An Unexpected Kantian Story

8. Beyond our given nature: Kant on the inviolable holiness of humanity

9. How Common is Common Human Reason? The Plurality of Moral Perspectives and Kant’s Ethics

10. The Philosopher’s Medicine of the Mind: Kant’s Account of Mental Illness and the Normativity of Thinking

Part III: Legality

11. “Eleutheronomy”: The Esoterically Political Character of Kant's Practical Philosophy

12. Kant and Privacy

13. Kant and the Provisionality of Property

 

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From the Publisher

"Lyssy and Yeomans have put together a volume of exceptionally high quality on a notion central to Kantian philosophy. Taken together, the chapters easily represent the most comprehensive treatment available of normativity across the domains of Kant's practical philosophy. This will no doubt be a welcome resource for specialists, but the diversity of the topics discussed under the broader theme of normativity, not to mention the accessibility of each of the contributions, ensures that non-specialists will also find something of interest." (Corey W. Dyck, Professor and Faculty Scholar for Arts and Humanities, Western University, Canada)