The Moral Habitat
- Publisher's listprice GBP 20.99
-
10 027 Ft (9 550 Ft + 5% VAT)
The price is estimated because at the time of ordering we do not know what conversion rates will apply to HUF / product currency when the book arrives. In case HUF is weaker, the price increases slightly, in case HUF is stronger, the price goes lower slightly.
- Discount 10% (cc. 1 003 Ft off)
- Discounted price 9 025 Ft (8 595 Ft + 5% VAT)
Subcribe now and take benefit of a favourable price.
Subscribe
10 027 Ft
Availability
Estimated delivery time: Expected time of arrival: end of January 2026.
Not in stock at Prospero.
Why don't you give exact delivery time?
Delivery time is estimated on our previous experiences. We give estimations only, because we order from outside Hungary, and the delivery time mainly depends on how quickly the publisher supplies the book. Faster or slower deliveries both happen, but we do our best to supply as quickly as possible.
Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 1 November 2023
- ISBN 9780198906223
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages272 pages
- Size 235x155x150 mm
- Weight 418 g
- Language English 508
Categories
Short description:
The Moral Habitat offers a new and systematic interpretation of Kant's moral and political philosophy. Herman introduces the idea of a moral habitat to examine the dynamic system of duties that exist between individuals and civic institutions.
MoreLong description:
In The Moral Habitat, Barbara Herman offers a new and systematic interpretation of Kant's moral and political philosophy. The study begins with an investigation of some understudied imperfect duties which, surprisingly, tell us some important but generally unnoticed facts about what it is to be a moral agent. The second part of the book launches a substantial reinterpretation of Kant's ethics as a system of duties, juridical and ethical, perfect and imperfect, that can incorporate what we learn from imperfect duties and do much more. This system of duties provides the structure for what Herman calls a moral habitat: a made environment, created by and for free and equal persons living together. It is a dynamic system, with duties from different spheres shaping and being affected by each other, each level further interpreting its core anti-subordination value. In the final part, Herman takes up some implications and applications of this moral habitat idea, developing the resources of this holistic agent-centered Kantian view of morality by considering what would be involved, morally, in recognizing a human right to housing to meta-ethical issues about objectivity and our responsibility for moral change.
Those who love philosophy books that present new, exciting, and complex theories have been given a gift in Barbara Herman’s The Moral Habitat. In my view, it is also a gift to Kant, since it develops a deeply Kantian account of deliberation as part of showing how perfect and imperfect duties can be seen as working together in a dynamic moral (eco)system of duties of right and of virtue. In the process of doing this, Herman develops a new, intriguing account of imperfect duties and replaces many of Kant’s bad examples with good ones, providing an ideal model for how to argue by example, whether one is Kantian or not.
Table of Contents:
Introduction
PART ONE: Three Imperfect Duties
Framing the Question (What We Can Learn From Imperfect Duties)
Gratitude A System of Duties
Giving Impermissibility and Wrongness
Due Care The Importance of Motive
PART TWO: Kantian Resources
Making the Turn to Kant
The Kantian System of Duties
Kantian Imperfect Duties
Tracking Value and Extending Duties
PART THREE: Living in the Moral Habitat
A Dynamic System
A Right to Housing
Incompleteness and Moral Change
Conclusion: Method and Limits
