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Peter Herissone-Kelly 
Kant on Maxims and Moral Motivation 
A New Interpretation

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This book outlines and circumvents two serious problems that appear to attach to Kant’s moral philosophy, or more precisely to the model of rational agency that underlies that moral philosophy: the problem of experiential incongruence and the problem of misdirected moral attention. The book’s central contention is that both these problems can be sidestepped. In order to demonstrate this, it argues for an entirely novel reading of Kant’s views on action and moral motivation.


In addressing the two main problems in Kant’s moral philosophy, the book explains how the first problem arises because the central elements of Kant’s theory of action seem not to square with our lived experience of agency, and moral agency in particular. For example, the idea that moral deliberation invariably takes the form of testing personal policies against the Categorical Imperative seems at odds with the phenomenology of such reasoning, as does the claim that all our actions proceed from explicitlyadopted general policies, or maxims. It then goes on to discuss the second problem showing how it is a result of Kant’s apparent claim that when an agent acts from duty, her reason for doing so is that her maxim is lawlike. This seems to put the moral agent’s attention in the wrong place: on the nature of her own maxims, rather than on the world of other people and morally salient situations. The book shows how its proposed novel reading of Kant’s views ultimately paints an unfamiliar but appealing picture of the Kantian good-willed agent as much more embedded in and engaged with the world than has traditionally been supposed.


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Introduction.- Chapter 1. Maxims of Action.- Chapter 2. Maxims, Ends, and Incentives.- Chapter 3. Deriving Actions from Laws.- Chapter 4. Maxims and Reasons.- Chapter 5. Incentives, Practical Aspects, and Bare Situational Reasons.- Chapter 6. Conclusion.

Sobre o autor

Peter Herissone-Kelly is Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Central Lancashire, Preston, UK, where he teaches ethics, metaphysics, epistemology, and philosophy of language. In addition to his work on Kant, he has published widely in bioethics, and in particular on the ethics of new reproductive technologies.
Língua Inglês ● Formato PDF ● Páginas 212 ● ISBN 9783030055721 ● Tamanho do arquivo 2.3 MB ● Editora Springer International Publishing ● Cidade Cham ● País CH ● Publicado 2019 ● Carregável 24 meses ● Moeda EUR ● ID 6860275 ● Proteção contra cópia DRM social

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