The Highest Good in Kant’s Philosophy

Published by De Gruyter 2016

The Highest Good in Kant’s Philosophy

Edited by: Thomas Höwing

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110369007

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The idea of a final end of human conduct – the highest good – plays an important role in Kant’s philosophy. Unlike his predecessors Kant defines the highest good as a combination of two heterogeneous elements, namely virtue and happiness. This conception lies at the centre of some of the most influential Kantian doctrines such as his famous “moral argument” for the rationality of faith, his conception of the unity of reason and his views concerning the final end of nature as well as the historical progress of mankind. To be sure, the different treatments of the highest good in Kant’s work have led to a great deal of discussion among his readers. Besides Kant’s arguments for moral faith, recent debate has focused on the place of the highest good within Kant’s moral theory, on the antinomy of pure practical reason, and on the idea of the primacy of practical reason. This collection of new essays attempts to re-evaluate Kant’s doctrine of the highest good and to determine its relevance for contemporary philosophy.

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Thomas Höwing, Goethe-University, Frankfurt am Main, Germany.

Reviews

"Il maggior pregio del volume curato da Höwing sta in conclusione proprio nella molteplicità di interpretazioni indipendenti e talora opposte in esso presentate. Raccogliendo intorno ad alcune domande fondamentali una costellazione di possibili risposte, il testo si mostra capace di restituire alcune fra le più originali implicazioni della multiforme dottrina kantiana del sommo bene e certamente di stimolare nuove questioni."
Silvia Petronzio in: Con-Textos Kantianos. International Journal of Philosophy, N.o 4, Noviembre 2016, pp. 380-390

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	I
Acknowledgments Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	V
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	VII
Introduction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Abbreviations and Methods of Reference Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	9
Notes on Contributors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	11
I. The Concept of the Highest Good and its Place in Kant’s Moral Theory
The Highest Good and the Notion of the Good as Object of Pure Practical Reason Federica Basaglia Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	17
Kant on ‘Good’, the Good, and the Duty to Promote the Highest Good Pauline Kleingeld Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	33
Kant on Happiness and the Duty to Promote the Highest Good Florian Marwede Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	51
“Mixtum Compositum”: On the Persistence of Kant’s Dualism in the Doctrine of the Highest Good Birgit Recki Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	71
The Determination of the Concept of the Highest Good Stephen Engstrom Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	89
II. Kant’s Moral Arguments and the Postulates of Pure Practical Reason
God, the Highest Good, and the Rationality of Faith: Reflections on Kant’s Moral Proof of the Existence of God Gabriele Tomasi Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	111
Kant on “Moral Arguments”: What Does the Objectivity of a Postulate of Pure Practical Reason Consist In? Stephan Zimmermann Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	131
Kant, Mendelssohn, and Immortality Paul Guyer Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	157
Life without Death: Why Kantian Agents Are Committed to the Belief in Their Own Immortality Jochen Bojanowski Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	181
III. Epistemology, Science, and Metaphysics
Kant on Opinion, Belief, and Knowledge Thomas Höwing Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	201
Must We Believe in the Realizability of Our Ends? On a Premise of Kant’s Argument for the Postulates of Pure Practical Reason Marcus Willaschek Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	223
Applying the Concept of the Good: The Final End and the Highest Good in Kant’s Third Critique Andrea Marlen Esser Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	245
“The supersensible … in us, above us and after us”: The Critical Conception of the Highest Good in Kant’s Practico-Dogmatic Metaphysics Günter Zöller Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	263
Index of Names Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	281
Subject Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	283

(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: De Gruyter
Audience: Academics, Scholars, Institutes, Libraries
Pages
- Front matter: 8
- Main content: 286
Keywords: Reason; virtue; happiness; morals

eBook

Published: April 25, 2016
ISBN: 9783110369007

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Published: April 25, 2016
ISBN: 9783110374285