Kant and the Origins of the Good Will
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 23 December 2025
- ISBN 9780198960829
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages368 pages
- Size 241x162x27 mm
- Weight 696 g
- Language English 648
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Short description:
Kant and the Origins of the Good Will is an in-depth study of the development of Immanuel Kant's moral philosophy from its beginnings in the 1750s up to the mid-1780s, and its intersections with elements of his metaphysics, epistemology, and philosophy of religion.
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Kant and the Origins of the Good Will is an in-depth study of the development of Immanuel Kant's moral philosophy from its beginnings in the 1750s up to the mid-1780s. The book also examines how Kant's moral views intersect with aspects of his metaphysics, epistemology, and philosophy of religion.
The good will and the dignity of humanity are centralbut often overlooked or controvertedelements of Kant's moral philosophy. In this volume, Patrick Kain systematically investigates the origins and emergence of Kant's moral philosophy, as well as the significance of the good will and the dignity of humanity within it. Starting with some of Kant's early published works, notes and drafts, and student notes from his lectures in a wide range of disciplines, the book examines Kants thought over the course of several decades.
Kain's analysis of Kant begins with a careful historical and philosophical reconstruction of his conception of the divine will, which reflected, influenced, and informed his developing moral philosophy. Kant and the Origins of the Good Will then provides a detailed interpretation of the emergence of Kant's moral philosophy prior to the publication of the Groundwork (1785). This study of the place of the good will and the dignity of humanity in Kant's thought sheds new light on the origins and content of Kant's published works on moral philosophy in the 1780s.
Table of Contents:
Introduction
Part I. A Divine Holy Will
Divine freedom and the metaphysics of modality
Divine freedom and the expression of goodness
Part II. Obligation, Feeling, and Goodness – The 1760s
Goodness, dignity, and obligation in Kant's early moral philosophy
Part III. Obligation and the Idea of a Will Good in Itself – the 1770s
"Moral Kaehler" I: Worth as a basis and a motive of obligation
"Moral Kaehler" II: The ethics of virtue and restricted freedom
"Metaphysics L1" and the reality of goodness
Part IV. The Idea of Humanity and the Autonomy of the Good Will – the Early and Mid-1780s
The Critique of Pure Reason and the idea of humanity
The principle of the good will and the science of the good
Preparing the Groundwork-an end in itself and a law to itself
An invitation: Seeing the good in the Groundwork
