Overview
"In Kant's Human Being, Robert B. Louden continues and deepens avenues of research first initiated in his highly acclaimed book, Kant's Impure Ethics. Drawing on a wide variety of both published and unpublished works spanning all periods of Kant's extensive writing career, Louden here focuses on Kant's under-appreciated empirical work on human nature, with particular attention to the connections between this body of work and his much-discussed ethical theory. Kant repeatedly claimed that the question, ""What is the human being"" is philosophy's most fundamental question, one that encompasses all others. Louden analyzes and evaluates Kant's own answer to his question, showing how it differs from other accounts of human nature. This collection of twelve essays is divided into three parts. In Part One (Human Virtues), Louden explores the nature and role of virtue in Kant's ethical theory, showing how the conception of human nature behind Kant's virtue theory results in a virtue ethics that is decidedly different from more familiar Aristotelian virtue ethics programs. In Part Two (Ethics and Anthropology), he uncovers the dominant moral message in Kant's anthropological investigations, drawing new connections between Kant's work on human nature and his ethics. Finally, in Part Three (Extensions of Anthropology), Louden explores specific aspects of Kant's theory of human nature developed outside of his anthropology lectures, in his works on religion, geography, education ,and aesthetics, and shows how these writings substantially amplify his account of human beings.Kant's Human Being offers a detailed and multifaceted investigation of the question that Kant held to be the most important of all, and will be of interest not only to philosophers but also to all who are concerned with the study of human nature."
Full Product Details
Author: Robert B. Louden (Distinguished Professor of Philosophy, Distinguished Professor of Philosophy, University of Southern Maine)
Publisher: Oxford University Press Inc
Imprint: Oxford University Press Inc
Dimensions:
Width: 15.50cm
, Height: 1.80cm
, Length: 23.10cm
Weight: 0.386kg
ISBN: 9780199354146
ISBN 10: 0199354146
Pages: 252
Publication Date: 23 January 2014
Audience:
College/higher education
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Professional and scholarly
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Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
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Professional & Vocational
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
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Reviews
This is an excellent book which will deepen its readers' understanding of Kant on human nature, and of human nature itself. Leslie Stevenson, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews
Author Information
Robert B. Louden is Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at the University of Southern Maine. His publications include The World We Want (OUP 2007), Kant's Impure Ethics (OUP 2000), and Morality and Moral Theory (OUP 1992). Currently president of the North American Kant Society, his writings focus on core issues and themes in ethical theory, the history of ethics, and Kant.
