Kant's Ethical Thought

by Allen W. Wood

Book Overview

This is a major new study of Kant's ethics that will transform the way students and scholars approach the subject in future. Allen Wood argues that Kant's ethical vision is grounded in the idea of the dignity of the rational nature of every human being. Undergoing both natural competitiveness and social antagonism the human species, according to Kant, develops the rational capacity to struggle against its impulses towards a human community in which...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 052164836X
• ISBN13: 9780521648363
• Release Date: August 1999
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 464 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.0" x 9.0"