Screen LibraryKant's theory of virtue：the value of autocracy
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Cambridge University Press,
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| Publisher Address: | Cambridge, UK New York |
| Publication Dates: | 2010. |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Modern European philosophy |
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| Carrier Form: | xvi, 189 p.: ; 24 cm. |
| ISBN: |
9780521766234 0521766230 |
| Index Number: | B516 |
| CLC: | B516.31 |
| Call Number: | B516.31/B355 |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 180-186) and index. The good will, moral worth, and duty: concerns about Kant's rationalist moral psychology -- Kant's conception of virtue and the autocracy of pure practical reason -- Virtue, human nature, and moral health: Kant's dispute with Schiller -- The moral psychology of Kantian virtue -- Conclusion: Kant's considered account of moral character and the good will reconsidered. "Anne Margaret Baxley offers a systematic interpretation of Kant's theory of virtue, whose most distinctive features have not been properly understood. She explores the rich moral psychology in Kant's later and less widely read works on ethics, and argues that the key to understanding his account of virtue is the concept of autocracy, a form of moral self-government in which reason rules over sensibility. Although certain aspects of Kant's theory bear comparison to more familiar Aristotelian claims about virtue, Baxley contends that its most important aspects combine to produce something dif |