Kant, Schopenhauer and Morality Recovering the Categorical Imperative [Hardcover]

Addressing the perennial question: why should we be moral? this book argues that we can only give a truly and morally satisfying answer to that question by radically reconfiguring our conception of the self and the way it relates to others.Preface and Acknowledgements Introduction: A Great Reversal? PART I: HOW KANT FAILED TO JUSTIFY HIS CATEGORICAL IMPERATIVE Justifying Morality Groundwork 3  An Enigmatic Text The Second Critique Groundwork 2 - Rational Nature as an End-in-itself? PART II: HOW KANT SHOULD HAVE JUSTIFIED HIS CATEGORICAL IMPERATIVE Introduction: Reconstructing Groundwork 3 From Rational Agency to Freedom From Freedom to the Non-Phenomenal From?Non-Phenomenality to?Universality The Identity of Persons Recovering the Categorical Imperative Bibliography Index

MARK (aka Joss) WALKER has been a permanent lecturer at the University of Birmingham, UK since 1991, before which he taught at the American University in Cairo, Egypt, Thames Polytechnic, England, and the University of Keele, England.