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Kant's Lectures on Ethics

A Critical Guide

Lara Denis editor Oliver Sensen editor

Format:Hardback

Publisher:Cambridge University Press

Published:23rd Apr '15

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Featuring fifteen new essays, this book is the only volume devoted to a scholarly study of Kant's lectures on ethics.

This collection of new essays is the only book devoted to a philosophical and scholarly study of Kant's lectures on ethics. Providing significant new insights into Kant's moral thought, it is of interest to students and scholars of Kant, ethics, political philosophy, religious studies and the history of ideas.This is the first book devoted to an examination of Kant's lectures on ethics, which provide a unique and revealing perspective on the development of his views. In fifteen newly commissioned essays, leading Kant scholars discuss four sets of student notes reflecting different periods of Kant's career: those taken by Herder (1762–4), Collins (mid-1770s), Mrongovius (1784–5) and Vigilantius (1793–4). The essays cover a diverse range of topics, from the relation between Kant's lectures and the Baumgarten textbooks, to obligation, virtue, love, the highest good, freedom, the categorical imperative, moral motivation and religion. Together they provide the reader with a deeper and fuller understanding of the evolution of Kant's moral thought. The volume will be of interest to a range of readers in Kant studies, ethics, political philosophy, religious studies and the history of ideas.

ISBN: 9781107036314

Dimensions: 229mm x 152mm x 19mm

Weight: 590g

310 pages