9780199691531-0199691533-Kant's Groundwork for the Metaphysics of Morals: A Commentary

Kant's Groundwork for the Metaphysics of Morals: A Commentary

ISBN-13: 9780199691531
ISBN-10: 0199691533
Edition: 1
Author: Henry E. Allison
Publication date: 2011
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Format: Hardcover 390 pages
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ISBN-13: 9780199691531
ISBN-10: 0199691533
Edition: 1
Author: Henry E. Allison
Publication date: 2011
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Format: Hardcover 390 pages

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Kant's Groundwork for the Metaphysics of Morals: A Commentary (ISBN-13: 9780199691531 and ISBN-10: 0199691533), written by authors Henry E. Allison, was published by Oxford University Press in 2011. With an overall rating of 4.5 stars, it's a notable title among other History & Surveys (Philosophy, Metaphysics) books. You can easily purchase or rent Kant's Groundwork for the Metaphysics of Morals: A Commentary (Hardcover) from BooksRun, along with many other new and used History & Surveys books and textbooks. And, if you're looking to sell your copy, our current buyback offer is $0.32.

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Henry E. Allison presents a comprehensive commentary on Kant's Groundwork for the Metaphysics of Morals (1785). It differs from most recent commentaries in paying special attention to the structure of the work, the historical context in which it was written, and the views to which Kant was responding. Allison argues that, despite its relative brevity, the Groundwork is the single most important work in modern moral philosophy and that its significance lies mainly in two closely related factors. The first is that it is here that Kant first articulates his revolutionary principle of the autonomy of the will, that is, the paradoxical thesis that moral requirements (duties) are self-imposed and that it is only in virtue of this that they can be unconditionally binding. The second is that for Kant all other moral theories are united by the assumption that the ground of moral requirements must be located in some object of the will (the good) rather than the will itself, which Kant terms heteronomy. Accordingly, what from the standpoint of previous moral theories was seen as a fundamental conflict between various views of the good is reconceived by Kant as a family quarrel between various forms of heteronomy, none of which are capable of accounting for the unconditionally binding nature of morality. Allison goes on to argue that Kant expresses this incapacity by claiming that the various forms of heteronomy unavoidably reduce the categorical to a merely hypothetical imperative.
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