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Understanding Moral Obligation - Kant, Hegel, Kierkegaard (Hardcover)
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Understanding Moral Obligation - Kant, Hegel, Kierkegaard (Hardcover)
Series: Modern European Philosophy
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In many histories of modern ethics, Kant is supposed to have
ushered in an anti-realist or constructivist turn by holding that
unless we ourselves 'author' or lay down moral norms and values for
ourselves, our autonomy as agents will be threatened. In this book,
Robert Stern challenges the cogency of this 'argument from
autonomy', and claims that Kant never subscribed to it. Rather, it
is not value realism but the apparent obligatoriness of morality
that really poses a challenge to our autonomy: how can this be
accounted for without taking away our freedom? The debate the book
focuses on therefore concerns whether this obligatoriness should be
located in ourselves (Kant), in others (Hegel) or in God
(Kierkegaard). Stern traces the historical dialectic that drove the
development of these respective theories, and clearly and
sympathetically considers their merits and disadvantages; he
concludes by arguing that the choice between them remains open.
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