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Publisher:
Cambridge University Press
Online publication date:
August 2013
Print publication year:
2013
Online ISBN:
9781139583886
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139583886
Subjects:
Eighteenth-Century Philosophy, Philosophy
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Book description

Kant's 'practical philosophy' comprehends a diverse group of his writings on ethics, politics, law, religion, and the philosophy of history and culture. Kristi E. Sweet demonstrates the unity and interdependence of these writings by showing how they take as their animating principle the human desire for what Kant calls the unconditioned - understood in the context of his practical thought as human freedom. She traces the relationship between this desire for freedom and the multiple forms of finitude that confront human beings in different aspects of practical life, and stresses the interdependence of the pursuit of individual moral goodness and the formation of community through the state, religion, culture and history. This study of Kant's approach to practical life discovers that doing our duty, itself the realization of our individual freedom, requires that we set for ourselves and pursue a whole constellation of social, political and other communal ends.

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'… a clear, accessible, and valuable contribution to scholarship on Kant's ethics. Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through researchers/faculty.'

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'It is a testament to the philosophic integrity of Sweet's work that it concludes by spurring the reader to reconsider the essential premise of her inquiry.'

Paul T. Wilford Source: The Review of Metaphysics

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Contents

Contents
References

Bibliography

Kant’s works

A list of all texts cited is supplied in the Abbreviations section, above.

German edition

Kant, Immanuel, Kants gesammelte Schriften, herausgegeben von der Deutschen Akademie der Wissenschaften, 29 vols. (Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, 1902–).

English editions

Kant, Immanuel, Anthropology, History, and Education, ed. and trans. Robert Louden and Günter Zöller (Cambridge University Press, 2007).
Kant, Immanuel, Correspondence, ed. and trans. Arnulf Zweig (Cambridge University Press, 1999).
Kant, Immanuel, Critique of Practical Reason, trans. Lewis White Beck (Upper Saddle River, NJ: Library of Liberal Arts, 1993).
Kant, Immanuel, Critique of Pure Reason, ed. and trans. Paul Guyer and Allen W. Wood (Cambridge University Press, 1998).
Kant, Immanuel, Critique of the Power of Judgment, ed. Paul Guyer, trans. Guyer and Eric Matthews (Cambridge University Press, 2000).
Kant, Immanuel, Lectures on Ethics, ed. Peter Heath and J. B. Schneewind, trans. Heath (Cambridge University Press, 1997).
Kant, Immanuel, Notes and Fragments, ed. Paul Guyer, trans. Curtis Bowman, Paul Guyer, and Frederick Rauscher (Cambridge University Press, 2005).
Kant, Immanuel, Practical Philosophy, ed. and trans. Mary J. Gregor (Cambridge University Press, 1996).
Kant, Immanuel, Religion and Rational Theology, ed. and trans. Allen W. Wood and George Di Giovanni (Cambridge University Press, 1996).
Kant, Immanuel, Theoretical Philosophy after 1781, ed. Henry Allison and Peter Heath, trans. Gary Hatfield, Michael Friedman, Allison, and Heath (Cambridge University Press, 2002).

Other works

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Gregor, Mary, Laws of Freedom: A Study of Kant’s Method of Applying the Categorical Imperative in the “Metaphysik der Sitten” (New York: Basil Blackwell, 1963).
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Guyer, Paul, “Ends of Reason and Ends of Nature: The Place of Teleology in Kant’s Ethics,” Journal of Value Inquiry, 36 (2002): 161–86.
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Höffe, Otfried, Kant’s Cosmopolitan Theory of Law and Peace (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2006).
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