Kant's principle of personality / [by] Hardy E. Jones

Jones, Hardy E.

1971, First Edition. Madison : University of Wisconsin Press. Fine cloth copy in a good if somewhat edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust-wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Library copy. Item #432210
ISBN: 0299060209

Physical description; x, 163 pages 23 cm. Notes; Revision of the author's thesis, University of Wisconsin, 1970. Includes bibliographical references (pages 155-158). Contents; Persons as ends in themselves -- Human nature and objective ends -- Absolute value and the end in itself -- Rationality and man's status as an end -- Sharing ends -- The example of suicide -- The criterion of sharing ends -- The inadequacy of ordinary notions -- The rational will -- Some new problems -- Autonomous rational wills -- Morally acceptable ends -- Supreme limiting conditions -- Motives, attitudes, and objective ends -- The role of the agent's motives -- The omission of internal factors -- The treatment of persons as ends -- Form and Content -- The content for morality / An absence of exceptions -- A similarity with utilitarianism -- Perfection and happiness -- The positive conception of the end in itself -- One's own perfection as a duty -- Other's happiness as an objective end -- Human dignity -- Moral worth and human virtue -- Dignity and price -- Values and categorical imperatives. Subjects; Kant, Immanuel 1724-1804. Kant, Immanuel. Kant, Immanuel 1724-1804 Criticism and interpretation. Attention Philosophical aspects. Consciousness Philosophical aspects. Identity (Philosophical concept) Philosophical aspects. Personality Philosophical aspects. Self Philosophical aspects. Cognition Philosophy. Personality. Philosophy, German.

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