Kant on Maxims and Moral Motivation A New Interpretation /

• Main Author: Herissone-Kelly, Peter (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Series: Studies in German Idealism, 21
• Subjects: Ethics.; Idealism, German.; Moral Philosophy.; German Idealism.

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...

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.