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Kant's Theory of Action (Hardcover, New)
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Kant's Theory of Action (Hardcover, New)
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The theory of action underlying Immanuel Kant's ethical theory is
the subject of this book. What "maxims" are, and how we act on
maxims, are explained here in light of both the historical context
of Kant's thought, and his classroom lectures on psychology and
ethics. Arguing against the current of much recent scholarship,
Richard McCarty makes a strong case for interpreting Kant as having
embraced psychological determinism, a version of the "belief-desire
model" of human motivation, and a literal, "two-worlds"
metaphysics. On this interpretation, actions in the sensible world
are always effects of prior psychological causes. Their explaining
causal laws are the maxims of agents' characters. And agents act
freely if, acting also in an intelligible world, what they do there
results in their having the characters they have here, in the
sensible world. McCarty additionally shows how this interpretation
is fruitful for solving familiar problems perennially plaguing
Kant's moral psychology.
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