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  schema location: http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-2.xsd
  title info:
    title: Kant on Maxims and Moral Motivation
    sub title: A New Interpretation
  name:
    name part: Herissone-Kelly, Peter.
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
    role:
      role term: aut
    role:
      role term: http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: gw
    date issued: 2018
    edition: 1st ed. 2018.
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: X, 212 p. 1 illus. online resource.
  abstract: 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 explicitly adopted 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.
  table of contents: 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.
  note: by Peter Herissone-Kelly.
  subject:
    topic: Ethics
  subject:
    topic: Idealism, German
  subject:
    topic: Ethics
  subject:
    topic: Moral Philosophy
  subject:
    topic: German Idealism
  classification: BJ1-1725
  classification: 170
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Springer eBooks
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Studies in German Idealism, 21
  identifier: 9783030055721
  identifier: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-05572-1
  record info:
    record creation date: 190117
    record change date: 20190621021141.0
    record identifier: 978-3-030-05572-1