Kant's Will at the Crossroads: An Essay on the Failings of Practical Rationality

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Jens Timmermann (Professor of Moral Philosophy, Professor of Moral Philosophy, University of St Andrews)

Kant's Will at the Crossroads

An Essay on the Failings of Practical Rationality

Jens Timmermann (Professor of Moral Philosophy, Professor of Moral Philosophy, University of St Andrews)

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English

Oxford University Press
27 October 2022

Western philosophy: Enlightenment; Philosophy of mind; Ethics & moral philosophy

What happens when human beings fail to do as reason bids? This book is an attempt to address this age-old question within Kant's mature practical philosophy, i.e. the practical philosophy that emerged with the watershed discovery of autonomy in the mid-1780s. As always, Kant is good for a surprise. There is, it is argued, not one answer but two: He advocates Socratic intellectualism in the realm of prudence whilst defending an anti-intellectualist or volitional account of immoral action. This 'hybrid' theory of practical failure is more than a philosophical curiosity. There are ramifications for Kant's theory of practical reason as a whole. In particular, the hybrid account emphasizes the divide between pure and empirical practical rationality to the extent that the latter, while containing practically relevant propositions, no longer counts a branch of practical reason at all. Hypothetical and categorical imperatives exemplify two entirely distinct kinds of normativity. In fact, the dichotomy between pure and empirical determining grounds of the will goes hand in hand with many other dualisms and dichotomies that, whether we like them or not, continue to define Kant's mature ethical thought.

By: Jens Timmermann (Professor of Moral Philosophy Professor of Moral Philosophy University of St Andrews)
Imprint: Oxford University Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 240mm, Width: 164mm, Spine: 19mm
Weight: 452g
ISBN: 9780192896032
ISBN 10: 0192896032
Pages: 188
Publication Date: 27 October 2022
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Preface A note on texts and translations 1: Introduction 2: Happiness 3: The law and the good 4: Instrumental imperatives 5: The emergence of practical reason 6: Incentives, maxims, and freedom 7: Two types of practical failure 8: Conclusions and implications Kant's practical dualisms: a fifteen-point summary Bibliography

Jens Timmermann is the Professor of Moral Philosophy at the University of St Andrews. He is a leading authority in Immanuel Kant's ethics and is the author of several books on Kant, including Kant's Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals: A Commentary (2007) and Sittengesetz und Freiheit (2003). He is also the editor of the first German-English edition of Kant's Groundwork (2011).