Human Dignity and the Kingdom of Ends: Kantian Perspectives and Practical Applications (Routledge Studies in Eighteenth-Century Philosophy)

Cover
Endorsement Page
Half Title
Series Page
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication
Table of Contents
List of Contributors
Acknowledgments
Abbreviations for Kant’s Works
Human Dignity and the Kingdom of Ends: An Introduction
	I.1 Human Dignity
	I.2 The Kingdom of Ends
	I.3 Dignity in the Kingdom of Ends
	I.4 Outline of the Volume
		I.4.1 Part I. Human Dignity and the Kingdom of Ends in Kant’s Groundwork
		I.4.2 Part II. The Politics of Human Dignity and the Kingdom of Ends
		I.4.3 Part III. The Ethics of Human Dignity and the Kingdom of Ends
	Notes
	Works Cited
Part I: Human Dignity and the Kingdom of Ends in Kant’s Groundwork
	Chapter 1: The Dignity of Freedom
		1.1 Introduction
		1.2 Dignity
		1.3 Freedom
		1.4 Capacity or Realization?
		1.5 Acting with Dignity
		Notes
		Works Cited
	Chapter 2: The Kingdom of Ends in the Groundwork
		2.1 Introduction
		2.2 Why a Kingdom of Ends?
		2.3 What Is the Kingdom of Ends?
			2.3.1 The Existence of the Kingdom of Ends
			2.3.2 The Internal Structure of the Kingdom of Ends
		2.4 Autonomy
		2.5 Worth and Price
		2.6 Dignity
		2.7 Conclusion
		Notes
		References
	Chapter 3: “Closer to intuition (according to a certain analogy) and thereby to feeling”: Making Kant’s Kingdom of Ends Intuitive
		3.1 A Very Fruitful Concept
		3.2 Closer to Intuition (According to a Certain Analogy)
		3.3 Counteracting Evil with United Forces
		3.4 Greatly Scaled Down Under Human Hands
		3.5 Something That the Senses Can Hold On to
		3.6 Sensible Intermediaries That Serve as Schemata
		3.7 … and thereby to feeling
		3.8 Conclusion
		Notes
		Works Cited
	Chapter 4: Kant’s Understanding of Human Dignity as Self-Determination in the Realm of Ends
		4.1 Conditions of Kant’s Understanding of Human Dignity as Self-Legislation in the Realm of Ends 1
		4.2 The Use of the Concept Of Human Dignity in the Groundwork in the Third Imagination-Formula of the Categorical Imperative, the Realm-of-Ends-Formula
		4.3 The Peculiarity of the Realm of Ends and the Realm-of-Ends Formula
		4.4 Human Dignity in Kant as the Secularized Religious Idea of the Linkage to the Totality of the World United with the Moralized Rousseauian Concept of Autonomy
		Notes
		Bibliography
Part II: The Politics of Human Dignity and the Kingdom of Ends
	Chapter 5: Honeste Vive : Dignity in Kant’s Theory of Juridical Obligation
		5.1 Dignity in the Doctrine of Right
		5.2 The Only Innate Right as Juridical Blamelessness ( Unbescholtenheit)
			5.2.1 Innate Right and Honeste Vive
		5.3 How Is External Juridical Obligation Possible?
			5.3.1 A Modal Theory of Juridical Obligation
		5.4 Conclusion
		Notes
		Works Cited
	Chapter 6: All Kings in the Kingdom of Ends?
		Notes
		Works Cited
	Chapter 7: The Transmutation of Dignity: Kant, Neo-Roman Republicanism, and the Commonwealth of Ends
		7.1 Introduction
		7.2 Dignity Prior to Kant
			7.2.1 Roman dignitas
			7.2.2 Christian Dignity
		7.3 Neo-Roman Republicanism and Dignity
		7.4 Sui iuris in the Commonwealth of Ends
		7.5 The Transmutation of Hierarchical into Egalitarian Dignity
		Appendix: Kantianism Versus Neo-Roman Republicanism
		Notes
		References
	Chapter 8: Respect and Retribution in the Kingdom of Ends
		Notes
		Works Cited
	Chapter 9: Kantian Human Dignity and a “Community of Rights”
		9.1 What a Concept of Human Dignity Would Have to Achieve?
		9.2 A Kantian Line to Human Dignity
		9.3 Human Dignity and Practical Self-Understanding
		9.4 Human Dignity and the Hermeneutics of Human Rights
		Notes
		Bibliography
	Chapter 10: Poverty, Dignity, and the Kingdom of Ends
		10.1 Kant’s Conception of Human Dignity
		10.2 What Does It Mean Not to Respect the Moral Status of Persons in the Context of Poverty?
			10.2.1 The Vulnerability-to-Instrumentalization Thesis
			10.2.2 The Humiliation Thesis
		10.3 What Would It Mean to Respect the Moral Status of Persons? – Two More Theses
			10.3.1 Respect-for-Ends-in-Themselves Thesis
			10.3.2 Treating Others as Ends and Means
		10.4 Poverty as Exclusion From Humanity
		10.5 Conclusion
		Acknowledgments
		Notes
		References
Part III: The Ethics of Human Dignity and the Kingdom of Ends
	Chapter 11: Legislating in the Fray: Lillian Hellman and the Kingdom of Ends 1
		11.1 Introduction
		11.2 Lillian Hellman
		11.3 Hellman and Kant
		11.4 Kant on Dignity and the Kingdom of Ends
			11.4.1 The Kingdom of Ends
			11.4.2 Dignity
		11.5 Hellman as Kantian Moral Legislator
			11.5.1 The Problem Deepened
			11.5.2 Enlightenment
			11.5.3 Character
		11.6 Conclusion
		Notes
		Works Cited
	Chapter 12: The Kingdom of Ends as Ideal
		12.1 The Work of the Imagination
		12.2 Kantian Ideals and the Imagination
			12.2.1 Orientation
			12.2.2 Harmonization
			12.2.3 Reconciliation
			12.2.4 Hope
		12.3 The Kingdom of Ends as an Imaginative Ideal
		12.4 Further Considerations
		Notes
		References
	Chapter 13: Gaslighting, Self-Respect, and the Kingdom of Ends 1
		13.1 What is Gaslighting?
		13.2 Examples and Distinctions
		13.3 A Kantian Framework
		13.4 The Facilitating Conditions of Gaslighting’s Success
		13.5 The Injuries of Gaslighting
			13.5.1 Groundlessly Undermining Another’s Capacity for Moral Judgment
			13.5.2 Groundlessly Undermining Another’s Self-Respect
				13.5.2.1 Kantian Recognition Self-Respect
				13.5.2.2 Agentic Self-Respect
		13.6 Gaslighting, Dignity and the Kingdom of Ends
		13.7 Conclusion
		Notes
		Works Cited
	Chapter 14: Knowledge, Error, and Enlightenment in the Kingdom of Ends
		14.1 Rational Interests in Representing What Is True or Real
			14.1.1 Understanding
			14.1.2 Insight
			14.1.3 Knowledge
		14.2 Rational Interests in Avoiding and Correcting Errors
			14.2.1 Two Kinds of Errors
			14.2.2 Guise of the Truth
		14.3 Rational Interests in Thinking for Oneself
		14.4 Complexities and Controversies
		14.5 Prima Facie Laws of Reason
			14.5.1 Prima Facsie Laws Concerning Ourselves
			14.5.2 Prima Facie Laws Concerning Others
			14.5.3 Prima Facie Laws Concerning Communication
		14.6 Autonomy, Dignity, and the Kingdom of Ends
		14.7 Theoretical and Practical Reason
		Notes
		Works Cited
	Chapter 15: Deliberating with Solidarity, Respect, and Appreciation
		15.1 Aims and Limits of the Project
		15.2 Basic Orienting Attitudes
		15.3 Human Solidarity
		15.4 Respect for Humanity
		15.5 Appreciation
		15.6 Concluding Remarks
		Notes
		Works Cited
Index