Kant's 'Critique of Practical Reason': A Critical Guide (Cambridge Critical Guides) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1107675383 ISBN 13: 9781107675384

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2013

Synopsis

The Critique of Practical Reason is the second of Kant's three Critiques, and his second work in moral theory after the Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals. Its systematic account of the authority of moral principles grounded in human autonomy unfolds Kant's considered views on morality and provides the keystone to his philosophical system. The essays in this volume shed light on the principal arguments of the second Critique and explore their relation to Kant's critical philosophy as a whole. They examine the genesis of the Critique, Kant's approach to the authority of the moral law given as a 'fact of reason', the metaphysics of free agency, the account of respect for morality as the moral motive, and questions raised by the 'primacy of practical reason' and the idea of the 'postulates'. Engaging and critical, this volume will be invaluable to advanced students and scholars of Kant and to moral theorists alike.

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Book Description

The essays in this volume shed light on the principal arguments of the Critique of Practical Reason and explore their relation to Kant's critical philosophy as a whole. Engaging and critical, this volume will be invaluable to advanced students and scholars of Kant and to moral theorists alike.

About the Author

Andrews Reath is Professor of Philosophy at the University of California, Riverside. He is the author of Agency and Autonomy in Kant's Moral Theory (2006) and the co-editor (with Barbara Herman and Christine M. Korsgaard) of Reclaiming the History of Ethics: Essays on John Rawls (Cambridge, 1997). Jens Timmerman is Senior Lecturer in Moral Philosophy at the University of St Andrews. He is the author of Kant's 'Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals': A Commentary (Cambridge, 2007) and Sittengesetz und Freiheit (2003), as well as the editor of Immanuel Kant, Kritik der Reinen Vernunft (1998) and Immanuel Kant, Grundlegung zur Metaphysik der Sitten (2004).

Edition details

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 2013
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1107675383
• ISBN 13: 9781107675384
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 240
• Editor: Reath Andrews, Timmermann Jens