Kant on Evil, Self-Deception, and Moral Reform

ISBN-13: 9780190692100 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 280 str.

Laura Papish

Opis

Throughout his writings, Immanuel Kant offers, but does not clearly defend, the claim that evil involves self-deception. Laura Papish's Kant on Evil, Self-Deception, and Moral Reform explains why Kant sees self-deception as implicated in evil and how, by contrast, human beings can develop a self-knowledge that facilitates moral reform.

Recenzje

Much has been written about Kant's views on evil in recent years. Laura Papish's Kant on Evil, Self-Deception, and Moral Reform is the most detailed and sophisticated study of the cognitive aspects of his mature account of this vitally important topic with which I am familiar.

O autorze

Laura Papish is an assistant professor of philosophy at The George Washington University, having received her Ph.D. from Northwestern University in 2011. Her main research areas are Kant's moral theory, the history of ethics, and contemporary ethics. Her articles have appeared in (among others) Kantian Review, Social Theory and Practice, Idealistic Studies, and Ethical Theory and Moral Practice.