The Development of Kant's View of Ethics by Ward, Keith -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

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Cover Table of Contents PREFACE LIST OF TEXTUAL REFERENCES CHAPTER ONE: THE RATIONALIST BACKGROUND

1.1 INTRODUCTION 1.2 EARLY INFLUENCES 1.3 THE PRINCIPLE OF SUFFICIENT REASON 1.4 FREEDOM AND NECESSITY 1.5 THE BEST OF ALL POSSIBLE WORLDS 1.6 GOD AND NATURE 1.7 THE ROMANTIC VISION OF NATURE

CHAPTER TWO: THE DOCTRINE OF MORAL FEELING

2.1 THE BASIS OF MORALITY IN FEELING 2.2 THE FORMAL PRINCIPLES OF MORALITY 2.3 THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE CRITICAL THEORY 2.4 KANT’S DISSATISFACTION WITH MORAL SENSE THEORIES

CHAPTER THREE: THE DREAMS OF METAPHYSICS

3.1 THE INFLUENCE OF SWEDENBORG 3.2 THE VISIONARY METAPHYSICS OF THE DREAMS 3.3 THE PRIMACY OF MORALITY 3.4 INTELLECT AND SENSIBILITY 3.5 THE MATHEMATICAL ANTINOMIES 3.6 INTELLECTUAL KNOWLEDGE OF MORALITY 3.7 THE COLLAPSE OF THE DISSERTATION VIEW 3.8 THE ORIGINS OF THE CRITICAL VIEW OF ETHICS

CHAPTER FOUR: THE LECTURES ON ETHICS

4.1 THE ETHICAL DOCTRINE OF THE LECTURES 4.2 VIRTUE AND HAPPINESS 4.3 THE MOTIVE TO MORAL ACTION 4.4 GOD AND DUTY 4.5 MORALITY AND RELIGION 4.6 THE IMPORTANCE OF THE LECTURES

CHAPTER FIVE: THE CRITICAL DOCTRINES OF GOD AND THE SELF

5.1 THE DOCTRINE OF THE SELF 5.2 THE FREEDOM OF THE SELF 5.3 THE CONCEPT OF GOD 5.4 THE REGULATIVE USE OF IDEAS

CHAPTER SIX: THE POSTULATES OF PRACTICAL REASON

6.1 THE SUMMUM BONUM 6.2 THE RELATION OF HAPPINESS AND MORALITY 6.3 THE UNION OF REASON AND SENSIBILITY 6.4 THE TELEOLOGICAL NATURE OF KANTIAN ETHICS

CHAPTER SEVEN: THE SUPREME PRINCIPLE OF MORALITY

7.1 THE DERIVATION OF DUTIES FROM THE CATEGORICAL IMPERATIVE 7.2 REASON AND THE ENDS OF NATURE 7.3 THE PRINCIPLE OF UNIVERSALISABILITY 7.4 THE PRINCIPLE OF HUMANITY 7.5 THE NATURE OF THE SUPREME PRINCIPLE OF MORALITY

CHAPTER EIGHT: NATURE AND PURPOSE

8.1 THE BEAUTIFUL AND THE SUBLIME 8.2 THE REGULATIVE PRINCIPLE OF TELEOLOGY 8.3 THE HISTORICAL PURPOSE OF NATURE 8.4 ESSAYS ON HISTORY

CHAPTER NINE: MORALITY AND RELIGION

9.1 THE DOCTRINE OF INNATE EVIL 9.2 THE DOCTRINE OF CONVERSION 9.3 THE NATURE OF RELIGIOUS SYMBOLS 9.4 THE EVOLUTION OF MORAL FAITH

CHAPTER TEN: THE FINAL VIEW OF ETHICS

10.1 THE OPUS POSTUMUM 10.2 GOD AND PRACTICAL REASON 10.3 THE METAPHYSICAL CONTEXT OF KANT’S ETHICS 10.4 THE CONFLICT OF RATIONALISM AND INDIVIDUALISM 10.5 KANT’S VOLUNTARISM

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