Kant on Freedom, Law, and Happiness

by Paul Guyer

Book Overview

Kant is often portrayed as the author of a rigid system of ethics in which adherence to a formal and universal principle of morality - the famous categorical imperative - is an end itself, and any concern for human goals and happiness a strictly secondary and subordinate matter. Such a theory seems to suit perfectly rational beings but not human beings. The twelve essays in this collection by one of the world's preeminent Kant scholars argue for a...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521654211
• ISBN13: 9780521654210
• Release Date: February 2000
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 456 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.0" x 9.1"