Ethics Vindicated: Kant's Transcendental Legitimation of Moral Discourse

ISBN-13: 9780195307351 / Angielski / Twarda / 2006 / 208 str.

Ermanno Bencivenga

Opis

Can we regard ourselves as having free will? What is the place of values in a world of facts? What grounds the authority of moral injunctions, and why should we care about them? Unless we provide satisfactory answers to these questions, ethics has no credible status and is likely to be subsumed by psychology, history, or rational decision theory. According to Ermanno Bencivenga, this outcome is both common and regrettable.

Bencivenga points to Immanuel Kant for the solution. Kant's philosophy is a sustained, bold, and successful effort aiming at offering us the answers we need. Ethics Vindicated is a clear and thorough account of this effort that builds on Bencivenga's previous interpretation of transcendental philosophy (as articulated in his Kant's Copernican Revolution) and draws on the entire Kantian corpus.

Recenzje

This is a compact book. In only one hundred and twenty-one pages... the reader is led right into the middle of Kant's transcendental idealism (TI) and the problem of freedom and determinism,,, The book's wide scope... make it both valuable and challenging... I strongly recommend this book to anyone who wants to be led straight and without much historical ado into TI and the problem of free will.