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Kant's Will at the Crossroads - An Essay on the Failings of Practical Rationality (Hardcover)
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Kant's Will at the Crossroads - An Essay on the Failings of Practical Rationality (Hardcover)
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What happens when human beings fail to do as reason bids? This book
is an attempt to address this age-old question within Kant's mature
practical philosophy, i.e. the practical philosophy that emerged
with the watershed discovery of autonomy in the mid-1780s. As
always, Kant is good for a surprise. There is, it is argued, not
one answer but two: He advocates Socratic intellectualism in the
realm of prudence whilst defending an anti-intellectualist or
volitional account of immoral action. This 'hybrid' theory of
practical failure is more than a philosophical curiosity. There are
ramifications for Kant's theory of practical reason as a whole. In
particular, the hybrid account emphasizes the divide between pure
and empirical practical rationality to the extent that the latter,
while containing practically relevant propositions, no longer
counts a branch of practical reason at all. Hypothetical and
categorical imperatives exemplify two entirely distinct kinds of
normativity. In fact, the dichotomy between pure and empirical
determining grounds of the will goes hand in hand with many other
dualisms and dichotomies that, whether we like them or not,
continue to define Kant's mature ethical thought.
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