The Virtues of Freedom : Selected Essays on Kant

Content: Cover
 Virtues of Freedom
 Copyright
 Preface
 Contents
 Abbreviations
 Sources
 Introduction
 1: Kant, Autonomy, and Modernity
 1. Introduction
 2. The Ancient Aspects of Autonomy
 3. Kant's Conception of Autonomy
 4. Arguing for Autonomy
 Part I: The Value of Freedom
 2: Is and Ought: From Hume to Kant, and Now
 1. Introduction
 2. Hume
 3. Kames and Smith
 4. Kant
 5. Conclusion
 3: Freedom as the Foundation of Morality: Kant's Early Efforts
 1. Finding a Foundation for the Categorical Imperative
 2. Formulating the Categorical Imperative
 3. The Foundation of the Categorical Imperative 4. Conclusion
 4: Freedom and the Essential Ends of Humankind
 1. Essential, Universal, and Complete Ends
 2. The Development of Kant's View of Freedom as our Essential End
 3. Kant's Mature View of Freedom as our Essential End
 5: Kantian Perfectionism
 1. Kant and Virtue Ethics
 2. Wolffian Perfectionism
 3. Kantian Perfectionism
 6: Setting and Pursuing Ends: Internal and External Freedom
 1. The Greatest Use of Freedom
 2. Derivations of Duties
 3. The General Duty Not to Restrict Freedom Unnecessarily
 4. The Derivation of Duties from This Idea
 7: Freedom, Ends, and Duties in Vigilantius 1. The Essential End of Mankind
 2. Strategies for the Derivation of Duties
 3. Deriving Duties from Freedom Alone
 Part II: The Actuality of Freedom
 8: The Proof-Structure of the Groundwork and the Role of Section III
 1. Introduction
 2. Two Senses of the Analytic-Synthetic Distinction
 3. Apagogic and Ostensive Argumentation within Section II
 4. The Indirect and Direct Arguments for the Formulation of the Categorical Imperative
 5. Redeeming the Postulate
 9: Proving Ourselves Free
 1. The Irrelevance of Determinism?
 2. Kant and the Irrelevance of Determinism? 3. Kant on the Threat of Determinism
 4. Kant's Proof of Transcendental Freedom in the Groundwork
 5. Kant's Proof of Transcendental Freedom in the Critique of Practical Reason
 6. The Moral Standing of Other Persons
 7. Holding Ourselves and Others Responsible
 10: Problems with Freedom: Kant's Argument in Groundwork III and its Subsequent Emendations
 1. Problems with Freedom
 2. The Argument of Groundwork III
 3. Answering the First Two Questions
 4. Answering the Third Question
 11: Natural and Rational Belief: Kant's Final Words?
 1. Introduction
 2. Hume's Final Chapters 3. Kant's Not Yet Final Words
 4. Conclusion
 Part III: The Achievement of Freedom
 12: A Passion for Reason: Hume, Kant, and the Motivation for Morality
 1. Introduction
 2. Hume: Calm Passion and a Passion for Calm
 3. Kant: A Passion for Freedom
 13: The Obligation to be Virtuous: Kant's Conception of the Tugendverpflichtung
 1. Duties of Virtue and the Obligation to be Virtuous
 2. Two Conceptions of Duty
 3. The Obligation to be Virtuous as an Obligation to Strengthen Oneś Resolve
 14: Kant on Moral Feelings: From the Lectures to the Metaphysics of Morals
 1. Introduction