Kant on Absolute Value

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Kant on Absolute Value

A Critical Examination of Certain Key Notions in Kant's 'Groundwork of the Metaphysic of Morals' and of his Ontology of Personal Value

Western philosophy: Enlightenment Ethics and moral philosophy

Author: Patrick Æ. Hutchings

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Collection: Routledge Library Editions: 18th Century Philosophy

Language: English

Published by: Routledge

Published on: 25th April 2019

Format: LCP-protected ePub

Size: 485 Kb

ISBN: 9780429639999


Thesis of the Book

The thesis of this book, first published in 1972, is that Kant’s notions of ‘absolute worth’, the ‘unconditioned’ and ‘unconditioned worth’ are rationalistic and confused, and that they spoil his ontology of personal value and tend to subvert his splendid idea of the person as an End in himself.

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