• Kant and the Ethics of Rational Nature

    Author(s):
    Peter Critchley (see profile)
    Date:
    2007
    Subject(s):
    Ecology, Kant, Immanuel, 1724-1804, Philosophy
    Item Type:
    Book
    Tag(s):
    Kant, Immanuel Kant
    Permanent URL:
    http://dx.doi.org/10.17613/M6CJ87K2K
    Abstract:
    This book divides into four sections. Section one examines Kant's Copernican revolution in philosophy, showing how Kant altered the basis of cognition. Kant is shown to affirm creative human agency in the shaping and understanding of the world. The implications of this emphasis on human agency for ethics and politics are examined in the second and third parts. The fourth part examines how successful Kant was in realising rational nature as an end in itself in the empirical world. The principal argument of this book is that whilst Kant failed to realise his ideal noumenological society, avoiding an active politics to rely on evolution, history and a general process of public education, Kant's ethics can be developed as a transformatory politics.
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    Pub. Date:
    2007
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