The Metaphysics of the Moral Law: Kant's Deduction of Freedom

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ISBN: 9780815337720 | 0815337728
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Copyright: 1/8/2001

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This work offers a new understanding of Kant on the freedom of the will. Voeller looks in detail at theGroundwork of the Metaphysics of Moralsand theCritique of Practical Reasonagainst the background of Kant's critical philosophy as a whole. Voeller's book is essential reading for those interested in moral philosophy, Kant, philosophy of religion, philosophy of action and freedom of the will.

Preface

Acknowledgments

Further Acknowledgments

xvii

Introduction

(11)

Note on Sources and Translation

(3)

Part I Belief, Subjectivity, and the Epistemic Power of Practical Reason

(44)

The Moral Argument for God's Existence

(42)

The Disputed Interpretations

(5)

Kant's Argument for God's Existence

(4)

Glauben (Belief)

(2)

God's Existence as Necessary Condition of the Possibility of the Highest Good

(3)

Preliminaries: The Possibility of the Highest Good and the Existence of God

(3)

The Highest Good as an Object of the Will

(2)

The Possibility of the Highest Good

(5)

Kant's Conceptions of the Subjective and the Objective

(4)

Why the Possibility of the Highest Good is an Only Subjectively Sufficient Condition for God's Existence

(4)

The Practical and the Subjective: The Limits of the Argument

(9)

Part II The Deduction of Freedom: The Argument of Groundwork III and Chapter I of the Second Critique

(92)

The Argument and Its Background

(40)

A Deduction, Moreover, a Deduction of Freedom

(6)

Two Preliminaries: A Yet Earlier Problem about Freedom with More on What the Deduction Is, and Isn't

(6)

Kant's Notion of Law (in the Theoretical and Practical Deductions)

(11)

The Argument for Equivalence

(2)

The Argument for the Moral Law

(2)

The Argument for the Constitution of the Will

(9)

Texts: Groundwork III and Second Critique I

101

(50)

The Logical Possibility of Freedom in the Groundwork

101

(7)

The Equivalence Claim

108

(4)

The Real Possibility of Freedom

112

(9)

Consciousness of the Moral Law, the Critique's Deduction of Freedom

121

(11)

Consciousness of the Moral Law, the Groundwork's Deduction of Freedom

132

(16)

In Conclusion: The Ratio Cognoscendi of the Ratio Essendi

148

(3)

Afterword

151

(8)

Selected Bibliography: Works in English

159

(6)

Index

165

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The Metaphysics of the Moral Law: Kant's Deduction of Freedom

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