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Author:   Patrick Kain (Associate Professor of Philosophy, Associate Professor of Philosophy, Purdue University)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
Imprint:   Oxford University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 16.20cm , Height: 2.70cm , Length: 24.10cm
Weight:   0.696kg
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9780198960829

ISBN 10:   0198960824
Pages:   368
Publication Date:   23 December 2025
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Introduction Part I. A Divine Holy Will1: 2: Divine freedom and the metaphysics of modality Divine freedom and the expression of goodness Part II. Obligation, Feeling, and Ideas of Goodness3: Goodness, human dignity, and obligation in the early development of Kant's ethics Part III. Obligation and the Idea of a Will Good in Itself-Kant's Lectures in the 1770s4: 5: ""Moral Kaehler"": Worth as a basis and a motive of obligation 6: The reality of goodness in ""Metaphysics L1"" Part IV. The Idea of Humanity and the Autonomy of the Good Will (the Early and Mid-1780s) 7: The Critique of Pure Reason and the idea of humanity 8: The principle of the good will and the science of the good 9: Preparing the groundwork-an end in itself and a law to itself An invitation: Seeing the good in the Groundwork

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Patrick Kain is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Purdue University and a founding faculty fellow in the Cornerstone Integrated Liberal Arts Program. His primary teaching responsibilities and scholarly interests are in ethics, the history of modern philosophy, and transformative texts. He received his PhD from the University of Notre Dame and joined the Purdue faculty in 2000. Kain was Humboldt Research Fellow at Philipps-Universität Marburg, Germany in 2003 and the Alvin Plantinga Research Fellow at the University of Notre Dame in 2018-19. Kain received the 2022 Henry Allison Senior Scholar Prize from the North American Kant Society.

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