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Constructions of Reason: Explorations of Kant's Practical Philosophy

Constructions of Reason: Explorations of Kant's Practical Philosophy

O'Neill, Onora

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Philosophy

ISBN10: 0521388163
ISBN13: 9780521388160
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: Jan 26 1990
Pages: 264
Weight: 0.70
Height: 0.50 Width: 5.98 Depth: 8.95
Language: English
Two centuries after they were published, Kant's ethical writings are as much admired and imitated as they have ever been, yet serious and long-standing accusations of internal incoherence remain unresolved. Onora O'Neill traces the alleged incoherences to attempts to assimilate Kant's ethical writings to modern conceptions of rationality, action and rights. When the temptation to assimilate is resisted, a strikingly different and more cohesive account of reason and morality emerges. Kant offers a constructivist vindication of reason and a moral vision in which obligations are prior to rights and in which justice and virtue are linked. O'Neill begins by reconsidering Kant's conceptions of philosophical method, reason, freedom, autonomy and action. She then moves on to the more familiar terrain of interpretation of the Categorical Imperative, while in the last section she emphasizes differences between Kant's ethics and recent Kantian ethics, including the work of John Rawls and other contemporary liberal political philosophers.

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