Idealist ethics /
W.J. Mander examines the nature of idealist ethics: the form and content of ethical belief most typically adopted by philosophical idealists. He identifies a tradition of idealist ethics, before going on to argue that such an approach offers an attractive way of looking at moral questions and has mu...
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Oxford :
Oxford University Press,
2016.
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| Edition: | First edition. |
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Table of Contents:
- Cover; Idealist Ethics; Copyright; Dedication; Preface; Contents; PART I; 1: What is Idealism?; 1.1 Definitions and the Idealist Family; 1.2 Idealism and Ideas; 1.3 Idealism and Minds; 1.4 Varieties of Mind; 1.5 The Primacy of Ideas; 1.6 Immaterialism; 2: The Notion of Idealist Ethics; 2.1 The Tradition of Idealist Ethics; 2.2 Rationale and Methodological Preliminaries; 2.3 An Overview; PART II; 3: Idealism and the Fact-Value Distinction (I); 3.1 Plato's Ethical Ontology; 3.2 The Humean and Kantian Distinctions; 3.3 Idealism and the Fact-Value Distinction
- 3.4 Fichte's Response to Kant's Dualism4: Idealism and the Fact-Value Distinction (II); 4.1 Hegel's Response to Fichte and Kant; 4.2 Hegel on Reason and Desire; 4.3 Fact and Value in British Idealism; 4.4 The Presence of Desire in Belief; 4.5 The Presence of Belief in Desire; 4.6 Metaphysical Foundations; PART III; 5: The Argument from Value and Valuing; 5.1 Ideal Love; 5.2 Ideal Desire; 5.3 Ideal Choice; 5.4 Issues of Idealization; 6: The Kantian Argument from Autonomy; 6.1 Autonomy as an Argument Against Moral Realism; 6.2 Kantian Moral Realism; 6.3 Kantian Moral Constructivism
- 6.4 The Will that Wills Itself7: The Axiarchic Argument; 7.1 The Reality of Value; 7.2 The Axiarchic Argument; 7.3 Assessing the Axiarchic Argument; 7.4 Idealism and the Axiarchic Argument; 8: Teleology; 8.1 Teleology and Idealism; 8.2 Kantian Teleology; 8.3 Hegelian Teleology; 8.4 Lotze's Teleology; 9: The Heart of Idealist Metaethics; 9.1 The Moral Self; 9.2 Mind, World, and Value; 9.3 Idealism and the Self-Reflexive Nature of Value; PART IV; 10: Idealist Hedonism; 10.1 Berkeley; 10.2 Lotze; 10.3 Sprigge; 10.4 Objections to Idealistic Hedonism; 11: Idealism and the Will
- 11.1 Kant and the Logic of Universalizability11.2 Josiah Royce and the Logic of Loyalty; 11.3 H.J. Paton and the Good Will; 12: Idealism and Self-Realization; 12.1 The Ideal of Self-Realization; 12.2 The Social Self; 12.3 The Cosmic or Divine Self; 12.4 The Origin of Moral Obligation; PART V; 13: The Ethics of Idealization; 13.1 The Ethics of Idealization; 13.2 Philosophical Idealism and the Ethics of the Ideal; 13.3 Abstract Ideals; 13.4 The Perfection of the Individual; 13.5 Social Perfection; 14: The Ideal and the Real; 14.1 The Knowability of Ideals; 14.2 The Rationality of Ideals
- 14.3 The Worth of Ideals14.4 The Hegelian Infinite; 14.5 Idealization and Realization; PART VI; 15: Idealism and Altruism; 15.1 Royce and 'the Moral Insight'; 15.2 Schopenhauer and Compassion; 15.3 Bosanquet and Idealistic Universals; 15.3.1 Bosanquet's theory of value; 15.3.2 Bosanquet's theory of selfhood; 15.3.3 Bosanquet's 'altruism'; 16: Idealism, Society, and Community; 16.1 Doctrine of the Social Self andthe Common Good; 16.2 Marietta Kies: Idealism and Altruism; 16.3 Personal Idealism and Community; 16.4 Royce: The Beloved Community; 16.5 McTaggart: The Metaphysics of Love; PART VII