1st Edition

Immanuel Kant and Utilitarian Ethics

By Samuel Hollander Copyright 2022
224 Pages
by Routledge

224 Pages
by Routledge

224 Pages
by Routledge

Adopting a view of utilitarian ethics in which motivation in the public interest takes on greater weight than is generally appreciated, this book explores the extent to which the philosophy of Immanuel Kant is consistent with this nuanced version of utilitarianism. Kant’s requirement that full ethical merit needs an agent to act purely ‘from duty’ to forward ‘the universal end of happiness’... Read more

INTRODUCTION AND PLAN OF WORK

ONE. KANT ON VIRTUE

TWO. KANT’S KÖNIGSBERG LECTURES ON ETHICS

THREE. KANT’S KÖNIGSBERG LECTURES ON ANTHROPOLOGY

FOUR. KANT IN EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY (UTILITARIAN) CONTEXT

FIVE. KANT AND SOME LATER INTELLECTUAL RELATIONS

SIX. MICHEL de MONTAIGNE (1533–1592): AN EARLY PRECURSOR OF KANT?

SEVEN. KANT AND UTILITARIAN ETHICS. A GENERAL OVERVIEW

Biography

Samuel Hollander is University Professor Emeritus at the University of Toronto, Canada, and an Officer in the Order of Canada.

"Immanuel Kant and Utilitarian Ethics expertly demonstrates the complexities of the work of Kant and the utilitarians while making a sound argument for a heretofore unacknowledged connection between them, and is sure to reward repeated readings."

Mark D. White, European Journal of the History of Economic Thought