Kant's 'Groundwork for the Metaphysics of Morals': A Reader' Guide: A Reader's Guide (Reader's Guides)

Guyer, Paul

ISBN 10: 0826484549 / ISBN 13: 9780826484543

Editore: Continuum, 2007

Gut/Very good: Buch bzw. Schutzumschlag mit wenigen Gebrauchsspuren an Einband, Schutzumschlag oder Seiten. / Describes a book or dust jacket that does show some signs of wear on either the binding, dust jacket or pages. Codice articolo M00826484549-V

Riassunto:

Kant is probably the philosopher who best typifies the thought and ideals of the Enlightenment. He was influenced by the modern physics of Newton, the rationalist perfectionism of Leibniz and Wolff, the critical empiricism of Locke and Hume, and Rousseau's celebration of liberty and individualism, and his work can be seen partly as an attempt to combine and synthesize these various ideas. In moral philosophy, he developed a radical and radically new conception of the unconditional value of human autonomy, which he opposed to both theological and utilitarian conceptions of moral value. He first expounded his moral vision in the Groundwork for the Metaphysics of Morals (1785), the seminal work of modern moral philosophy in which he introduced his infamous 'categorical imperative'. Paul Guyer's Reader's Guide will help readers find their way in this brilliant but dense and sometimes baffling work.

Informazioni sull?autore: Paul Guyer is Professor at the University of Pennsylvania, USA. He has written and edited over 10 books on Kant, including the Cambridge Companion and a book of critical essays on the Groundwork, as well as translating Kant's primary texts.

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Titolo: Kant's 'Groundwork for the Metaphysics of ...
Casa editrice: Continuum
Data di pubblicazione: 2007
Legatura: Brossura
Condizione: very good