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This page intentionally left blank KANT’S THEORY OF VIRTUE InthisbookAnneMargaretBaxleyoffersasystematicinterpretationof Kant’s theory of virtue, whose most distinctive features have not been properly understood. She explores the rich moral psychology in Kant’s later and less widely read works on ethics, and argues that the key to understanding his account of virtue is the concept of autocracy, a form ofmoralself-governmentinwhichreasonrulesoversensibility.Although certain aspects of Kant’s theory bear comparison to more familiar Aris- totelian claims about virtue, Baxley contends that its most important aspectscombinetoproducesomethingdifferent–adistinctivelymodern, egalitarian conception of virtue which is an important and overlooked alternative to the more traditional Greek views which have dominated contemporaryvirtueethics. anne margaret baxley isAssociateProfessorandDirectorofUnder- graduateStudiesinPhilosophyatWashingtonUniversityinSt.Louisand theauthorofanumberofjournalarticlesonKant. MODERN EUROPEAN PHILOSOPHY GeneralEditor RobertB.Pippin,UniversityofChicago AdvisoryBoard GaryGutting,UniversityofNotreDame Rolf-PeterHorstmann,HumboldtUniversity,Berlin Somerecenttitles FrederickA.Olafson:HeideggerandtheGroundofEthics Gu¨nterZo¨ller:Fichte’sTranscendentalPhilosophy WarrenBreckman:Marx,theYoungHegelians,andtheOriginsof RadicalSocialTheory WilliamBlattner:Heidegger’sTemporalIdealism CharlesGriswold:AdamSmithandtheVirtuesofEnlightenment GaryGutting:PragmaticLiberalismandtheCritiqueofModernity AllenWood:Kant’sEthicalThought KarlAmeriks:KantandtheFateofAutonomy AlfredoFerrarin:HegelandAristotle CristinaLafont:Heidegger,Language,andWorld-Disclosure NicholasWolsterstorff:ThomasReidandtheStoryofEpistemology DanielDahlstrom:Heidegger’sConceptofTruth MichelleGrier:Kant’sDoctrineofTranscendentalIllusion HenryAllison:Kant’sTheoryofTaste AllenSpeight:Hegel,Literature,andtheProblemofAgency J.M.Bernstein:Adorno WillDudley:Hegel,Nietzsche,andPhilosophy TaylorCarman:Heidegger’sAnalytic DouglasMoggach:ThePhilosophyandPoliticsofBrunoBauer Ru¨digerBubner:TheInnovationsofIdealism JonStewart:Kierkegaard’sRelationstoHegelReconsidered MichaelQuante:Hegel’sConceptofAction WolfgangDetel:FoucaultandClassicalAntiquity RobertM.Wallace:Hegel’sPhilosophyofReality,Freedom,andGod JohannaOksala:FoucaultonFreedom Be´atriceLonguenesse:KantontheHumanStandpoint WayneMartin:TheoriesofJudgment HeinrichMeier:LeoStraussandtheTheologico-PoliticalProblem OtfriedHo¨ffe:Kant’sCosmopolitanTheoryoftheLawandPeace Be´atriceLonguenesse:Hegel’sCritiqueofMetaphysics RachelZuckert:KantonBeautyandBiology AndrewBowie:Music,PhilosophyandModernity PaulRedding:AnalyticPhilosophyandtheReturnofHegelianThought KristinGjesdal:GadamerandtheLegacyofGermanIdealism Jean-ChristopheMerle:GermanIdealismandtheConceptofPunishment SharonKrishek:KierkegaardonFaithandLove NicolasdeWarren:HusserlandthePromiseofTime BenjaminRutter:HegelontheModernArts KANT’S THEORY OF VIRTUE The Value of Autocracy ANNE MARGARET BAXLEY WashingtonUniversity,St.Louis cambridgeuniversitypress Cambridge,NewYork,Melbourne,Madrid,CapeTown,Singapore, Sa˜oPaulo,Delhi,Dubai,Tokyo,MexicoCity CambridgeUniversityPress TheEdinburghBuilding,Cambridgecb28ru,UK PublishedintheUnitedStatesofAmericabyCambridgeUniversityPress,NewYork www.cambridge.org Informationonthistitle:www.cambridge.org/9780521766234 (cid:1)c AnneMargaretBaxley2010 Thispublicationisincopyright.Subjecttostatutoryexception andtotheprovisionsofrelevantcollectivelicensingagreements, noreproductionofanypartmaytakeplacewithoutthewritten permissionofCambridgeUniversityPress. Firstpublished2010 PrintedintheUnitedKingdomattheUniversityPress,Cambridge AcataloguerecordforthispublicationisavailablefromtheBritishLibrary LibraryofCongressCataloguinginPublicationdata Baxley,AnneMargaret,1970– Kant’stheoryofvirtue:thevalueofautocracy/AnneMargaretBaxley. p. cm.–(ModernEuropeanphilosophy) Includesbibliographicalreferencesandindex. isbn978-0-521-76623-4 1.Kant,Immanuel,1724–1804. 2.Virtue. 3.Philosophy,Modern. i.Title. b2799.v5b39 2010 (cid:2) 179.9092–dc22 2010037287 isbn978-0-521-76623-4Hardback CambridgeUniversityPresshasnoresponsibilityforthepersistenceor accuracyofURLsforexternalorthird-partyinternetwebsitesreferredto inthispublication,anddoesnotguaranteethatanycontentonsuch websitesis,orwillremain,accurateorappropriate. Tomyparents,CharleneandWilliamBaxley, fortheirabidingloveandsupport

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This page intentionally left blank KANT’S THEORY OF VIRTUE InthisbookAnneMargaretBaxleyoffersasystematicinterpretationof Kant’s theory of virtue, whose most distinctive features have not been properly understood. She explores the rich moral psychology in Kant’s later and less widely read works on ethics, and argues that the key to understanding his account of virtue is the concept of autocracy, a form ofmoralself-governmentinwhichreasonrulesoversensibility.Although certain aspects of Kant’s theory bear comparison to more familiar Aris- totelian claims about virtue, Baxley contends that its most important aspectscombinetoproducesomethingdifferent–adistinctivelymodern, egalitarian conception of virtue which is an important and overlooked alternative to the more traditional Greek views which have dominated contemporaryvirtueethics. anne margaret baxley isAssociateProfessorandDirectorofUnder- graduateStudiesinPhilosophyatWashingtonUniversityinSt.Louisand theauthorofanumberofjournalarticlesonKant. MODERN EUROPEAN PHILOSOPHY GeneralEditor RobertB.Pippin,UniversityofChicago AdvisoryBoard GaryGutting,UniversityofNotreDame Rolf-PeterHorstmann,HumboldtUniversity,Berlin Somerecenttitles FrederickA.Olafson:HeideggerandtheGroundofEthics Gu¨nterZo¨ller:Fichte’sTranscendentalPhilosophy WarrenBreckman:Marx,theYoungHegelians,andtheOriginsof RadicalSocialTheory WilliamBlattner:Heidegger’sTemporalIdealism CharlesGriswold:AdamSmithandtheVirtuesofEnlightenment GaryGutting:PragmaticLiberalismandtheCritiqueofModernity AllenWood:Kant’sEthicalThought KarlAmeriks:KantandtheFateofAutonomy AlfredoFerrarin:HegelandAristotle CristinaLafont:Heidegger,Language,andWorld-Disclosure NicholasWolsterstorff:ThomasReidandtheStoryofEpistemology DanielDahlstrom:Heidegger’sConceptofTruth MichelleGrier:Kant’sDoctrineofTranscendentalIllusion HenryAllison:Kant’sTheoryofTaste AllenSpeight:Hegel,Literature,andtheProblemofAgency J.M.Bernstein:Adorno WillDudley:Hegel,Nietzsche,andPhilosophy TaylorCarman:Heidegger’sAnalytic DouglasMoggach:ThePhilosophyandPoliticsofBrunoBauer Ru¨digerBubner:TheInnovationsofIdealism JonStewart:Kierkegaard’sRelationstoHegelReconsidered MichaelQuante:Hegel’sConceptofAction WolfgangDetel:FoucaultandClassicalAntiquity RobertM.Wallace:Hegel’sPhilosophyofReality,Freedom,andGod JohannaOksala:FoucaultonFreedom Be´atriceLonguenesse:KantontheHumanStandpoint WayneMartin:TheoriesofJudgment HeinrichMeier:LeoStraussandtheTheologico-PoliticalProblem OtfriedHo¨ffe:Kant’sCosmopolitanTheoryoftheLawandPeace Be´atriceLonguenesse:Hegel’sCritiqueofMetaphysics RachelZuckert:KantonBeautyandBiology AndrewBowie:Music,PhilosophyandModernity PaulRedding:AnalyticPhilosophyandtheReturnofHegelianThought KristinGjesdal:GadamerandtheLegacyofGermanIdealism Jean-ChristopheMerle:GermanIdealismandtheConceptofPunishment SharonKrishek:KierkegaardonFaithandLove NicolasdeWarren:HusserlandthePromiseofTime BenjaminRutter:HegelontheModernArts KANT’S THEORY OF VIRTUE The Value of Autocracy ANNE MARGARET BAXLEY WashingtonUniversity,St.Louis cambridgeuniversitypress Cambridge,NewYork,Melbourne,Madrid,CapeTown,Singapore, Sa˜oPaulo,Delhi,Dubai,Tokyo,MexicoCity CambridgeUniversityPress TheEdinburghBuilding,Cambridgecb28ru,UK PublishedintheUnitedStatesofAmericabyCambridgeUniversityPress,NewYork www.cambridge.org Informationonthistitle:www.cambridge.org/9780521766234 (cid:1)c AnneMargaretBaxley2010 Thispublicationisincopyright.Subjecttostatutoryexception andtotheprovisionsofrelevantcollectivelicensingagreements, noreproductionofanypartmaytakeplacewithoutthewritten permissionofCambridgeUniversityPress. Firstpublished2010 PrintedintheUnitedKingdomattheUniversityPress,Cambridge AcataloguerecordforthispublicationisavailablefromtheBritishLibrary LibraryofCongressCataloguinginPublicationdata Baxley,AnneMargaret,1970– Kant’stheoryofvirtue:thevalueofautocracy/AnneMargaretBaxley. p. cm.–(ModernEuropeanphilosophy) Includesbibliographicalreferencesandindex. isbn978-0-521-76623-4 1.Kant,Immanuel,1724–1804. 2.Virtue. 3.Philosophy,Modern. i.Title. b2799.v5b39 2010 (cid:2) 179.9092–dc22 2010037287 isbn978-0-521-76623-4Hardback CambridgeUniversityPresshasnoresponsibilityforthepersistenceor accuracyofURLsforexternalorthird-partyinternetwebsitesreferredto inthispublication,anddoesnotguaranteethatanycontentonsuch websitesis,orwillremain,accurateorappropriate. Tomyparents,CharleneandWilliamBaxley, fortheirabidingloveandsupport

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