The reality of the ideal : a study of Kant's highest good /
"They are too relative to feelings, varying standards, or shifting mores. For anything to deserve the title of the good, by contrast, Kant thought that every rational being must be able to deem it choice worthy, regardless of whether one personally desires it or not. Whatever is good, in short,...
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New York, NY :
Oxford University Press,
[2025]
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Table of Contents:
- Ideas versus ideals
- Practical ideals as grounds of contemplation
- The moral epistemic gap
- Filling the gap, embracing the ideal
- A mere ideal beyond ends in nature (1781-1786)
- An ideal as the final end of the will (1786-1788)
- An ideal as the final end of the world (1790-1794)
- Kantian coherence as a contemplative need
- Constructing a Kantian worldview
- The practical power of a Kantian worldview
- Conclusion : the reality of Kantian ideals
- Epilogue end of the endless.