Kant on Emotion and Value

317 Pages·2014·0.871 MB·English

by  Alix Cohen

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Titles include :
Alix Cohen (e ditor)
KANT ON EMOTION AND VALUE
Alison Denham ( editor )
PLATO ON ART AND BEAUTY
Edward Feser ( editor )
ARISTOTLE ON METHOD AND METAPHYSICS
Brian Garvey ( editor)
J. L. AUSTIN ON LANGUAGE
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SPINOZA ON MONISM
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MILL ON JUSTICE
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HEGEL ON ACTION
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SARTRE ON THE BODY
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HUME ON MOTIVATION AND VIRTUE
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REID ON ETHICS
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WILLIAM JAMES ON RELIGION
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THE LATER WITTGENSTEIN ON LANGUAGE
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RYLE ON MIND AND LANGUAGE
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DUMMETT ON ANALYTICAL PHILOSOPHY
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Kant on Emotion and
Value
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Contents
Acknowledgments vii
Notes on Contributors ix
List of Abbreviations xii
Introduction 1
Alix Cohen
1 T he Place of Emotions in Kantian Morality 1 1
N ancy Sherman
2 F rom Duty and for the Sake of the Noble: Kant and
Aristotle on Morally Good Action 3 3
C hristine M. Korsgaard
3 K antian Moral Maturity and the Cultivation of
Character 6 9
M arcia Baron
4 T he Place of the Emotions in Kant’s Transcendental
Philosophy 8 8
A ngelica Nuzzo
5 K ant’s Pragmatic Concept of Emotions 1 08
W iebke Deimling
6 K ant on the Pleasures of Understanding 126
M elissa McBay Merritt
7 D ebunking Confabulation: Emotions and the
Significance of Empirical Psychology for Kantian Ethics 146
P auline Kleingeld
8 A ffective Normativity 1 66
P atrick R. Frierson
9 Love of Honor as a Kantian Virtue 1 91
L ara Denis
10 A ll You Need Is Love? 2 10
J eanine M. Grenberg
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11 T he Heart as Locus of Moral Struggle in the R eligion 224
P ablo Muchnik
12 K ant and the Feeling of Sublimity 245
M ichelle Grier
13 E nthusiastic Cosmopolitanism 2 65
K atrin Flikschuh
Bibliography 284
Index 299
Acknowledgments
This volume would not have been possible without the help of many
people. First I would like to thank Constantine Sandis for giving me
the opportunity to put this volume together. His kind invitation was
perfectly timed since the publication of this volume marks the end of
the research project I have been working on together with Cain Todd,
thanks to the generous grant awarded by the Fond National Suisse de la
recherche scientifique (Université de Neuchâtel and Fribourg, ‘Imagination,
Emotion and Value’, 2011–14).
I want to express my gratitude to all the contributors for making my life
much easier by providing fantastic contributions. I would like to thank
Marcia Baron, Christine Korsgaard and Nancy Sherman in particular for
their invaluable help in securing the permissions to reprint their papers.
My thanks are also due to an anonymous external reader whose positive
comments and feedback were of great assistance whilst assembling the
contributions. Finally, I am grateful to Priyanka Gibbons, Melanie Blair
and Brendan George for their help and understanding when inevitable
delays emerged, and Jonathan Head for putting together the index.
On a more personal note, I would like to thank Cain Todd for his
whole-hearted encouragement in spite of his Humean sympathies, and
Noa for her special brand of joyful support. She has been part of this
project in more ways than one, and she has certainly been a constant
source of both emotion and value.
I would like to thank the editors and publishers of the following arti-
cles for the permission to reproduce these materials here.
Marcia Baron, ‘Kantian Moral Maturity and the Cultivation of
Character’ Originally published in The Oxford Handbook for Philosophy of
Education , ed. Harvey Siegel, New York: Oxford University Press, 2009,
pp. 227–44. Reprinted with permission of Oxford University Press,
USA.
Christine Korsgaard, ‘ F rom Duty and for the Sake of the Noble: Kant
and Aristotle on Morally Good Action’, Originally published in A ristotle,
Kant, and the Stoics: Rethinking Happiness and Duty , ed. Stephen Engstrom
and Jennifer Whiting, New York: Cambridge University Press, 1996,
pp. 203–36. Reprinted with permission of Cambridge University Press.
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viii Acknowledgments
Nancy Sherman, ‘The Place of Emotions in Kantian Morality’, Originally
published in Identity, Character, and Morality: Essays in Moral Psychology ,
ed. Owen J. Flanagan and Amélie Oksenberg Rorty, Cambridge: MIT
Press, 1990, pp. 140-70. Reprinted with permission of MIT Press.
Notes on Contributors
Marcia Baron is Professor of Moral Philosophy at the University of St.
Andrews and Rudy Professor of Philosophy at Indiana University. She is
the author of K antian Ethics Almost without Apology (1995) and co-author
of T hree Methods of Ethics: A Debate (1997). Recent articles include ‘The
Supererogatory and Kant’s Wide Duties,’ ’Rape, Seduction, Shame, and
Culpability in Tess of the d’Urbervilles,’ ‘The Ticking Bomb Hypothetical,’
and ‘Moral Worth and Moral Rightness; Maxims and Actions.’
Alix Cohen is Chancellor’s Fellow at the University of Edinburgh. She
is the author of K ant and the Human Sciences: Biology, Anthropology and
History (2009) and has written a dozen articles and book chapters on
Kant as well as Hume and Rousseau. She is Associate Editor of the B ritish
Journal for the History of Philosophy and the Oxford Bibliography Online.
Wiebke Deimling is the Ruth Norman Halls Postdoctoral Fellow in the
History of Philosophy at Indiana University, Bloomington. She special-
izes in Kant’s ethics, aesthetics and anthropology.
Lara D enis is Professor of Philosophy at Agnes Scott College. She
is author of Moral Self-Regard: Duties to Oneself in Kant’s Moral Theory
(2001), editor of a supplemented edition of K ant’s Groundwork for the
Metaphysics of Morals (2005), and editor of K ant’s Metaphysics of Morals:
A Critical Guide (2010).
Katrin Flikschuh is Professor of Political Theory at the London School
of Economics. She works mainly on Kant’s political philosophy and its
relation to debates in contemporary political philosophy. She is author
of Kant and Modern Political Philosophy (2000), and is currently working
on a monograph provisionally entitled K ant contra Cosmopolitanism:
Assessing the Global Justice Debate .
Patrick R. Frierson is Associate Professor of Philosophy and Garrett
Fellow in the Humanities at Whitman College in Walla Walla,
Washington. He is the author of Freedom and Anthropology in Kant’s Moral
Philosophy (2003), K ant’s Questions: What Is the Human Being? (2013), and
Kant’s Empirical Psychology (2014), and co-editor of K ant: Observations on
the Beautiful and the Sublime and Other Writings (2011). He has written
dozens of articles and book chapters on Kant in journals such as J ournal
of the History of Philosophy , Kantian Review , and Philosopher’s Imprint .
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