Download or read book Kant on Maxims and Moral Motivation written by Peter Herissone-Kelly and published by Springer. This book was released on 2019-01-17 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book outlines and circumvents two serious problems that appear to attach to Kant’s moral philosophy, or more precisely to the model of rational agency that underlies that moral philosophy: the problem of experiential incongruence and the problem of misdirected moral attention. The book’s central contention is that both these problems can be sidestepped. In order to demonstrate this, it argues for an entirely novel reading of Kant’s views on action and moral motivation. In addressing the two main problems in Kant’s moral philosophy, the book explains how the first problem arises because the central elements of Kant’s theory of action seem not to square with our lived experience of agency, and moral agency in particular. For example, the idea that moral deliberation invariably takes the form of testing personal policies against the Categorical Imperative seems at odds with the phenomenology of such reasoning, as does the claim that all our actions proceed from explicitly adopted general policies, or maxims. It then goes on to discuss the second problem showing how it is a result of Kant’s apparent claim that when an agent acts from duty, her reason for doing so is that her maxim is lawlike. This seems to put the moral agent’s attention in the wrong place: on the nature of her own maxims, rather than on the world of other people and morally salient situations. The book shows how its proposed novel reading of Kant’s views ultimately paints an unfamiliar but appealing picture of the Kantian good-willed agent as much more embedded in and engaged with the world than has traditionally been supposed.

Download or read book Maxims and Reflections written by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2005-12-01 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Throughout his long, hectic and astonishingly varied life, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749–1832) would jot down his passing thoughts on theatre programmes, visiting cards, draft manuscripts and even bills ... Goethe was probably the last true ‘Renaissance Man’. Although employed as a Privy Councillor at the Duke of Weimar’s court, where he helped oversee major mining, road-building and irrigation projects, he also painted, directed plays, carried out research in anatomy, botany and optics – and still found time to produce masterpieces in every literary genre. His fourteen hundred Maxims and Reflections reveal some of his deepest thought on art, ethics, literature and natural science, but also his immediate reactions to books, chance encounters or his administrative work. Although variable in quality, the vast majority have a freshness and immediacy which vividly conjure up Goethe the man. They make an ideal introduction to one of the greatest of European writers.

Download or read book A Dictionary of Thoughts written by Tryon Edwards and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 788 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Legal Maxims in Islamic Law written by Necmettin Kızılkaya and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2021-03-15 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study analyses the legal maxims from a conceptual and historical point of view and gives a broad overview of the application of legal maxims in substantive law manuals as well as some other sub-genres.

Download or read book Maxims and Reflections written by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2019-11-19 with total page 143 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Maxims and Reflections" represents Goethe's fourteen hundred maxims and reflections that reveal some of his deepest thought on art, ethics, literature, and natural science. They also contain his immediate reactions to books, chance encounters, or his administrative work, which he used to note on theatre programs, visiting cards, draft manuscripts, and even bills while working on his numerous projects.

Download or read book Maxims and Reflections written by Иоганн Вольфганг Гёте and published by Litres. This book was released on 2021-03-16 with total page 189 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book The Maxims and Reflections of Goethe written by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Maxims in the Novels of Duclos written by B.G. Silverblatt and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Soma s Dictionary of Latin Quotations Maxims and Phrases written by S. O. M. A. and published by Trafford Publishing. This book was released on 2010 with total page 453 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: SOMA's Dictionary of Latin Quotations, Maxims and Phrases is the most extensive compilation of Latin Quotations, Maxims and Phrases in the market today. In addition to its extensive entries of Latin expressions, it also features an amazing variety of content that will be of great interest and benefit to the user. SOMA's Dictionary is a priceless collection of valuable resources for a wide range of users, from the aspiring professional to the seasoned academic. A few of its features include: - Over 8,600 unique Latin entries including over 1000 Legal Maxims and expressions - 30 Biographies of Roman Authors and Philosophers - Over 1,000 related suffixes and prefixes - Over 30 Greek Phrases - An extensive timeline of all Roman Emperors - An extensive timeline of the shapers of Western Civilization and Culture - A pronunciation guide with notes - And so much more

Download or read book Maxims Selected from the Writings of Philip Dormer Stanhope Earl of Chesterfield Comprehending a Plan of Education on the Principles of Virtue and Politeness and Calculated to Form the Man of Honour the Man of Virtue and the Accomplished Gentleman written by Philip Dormer Stanhope Earl of Chesterfield and published by . This book was released on 1799 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book Collected Maxims and Other Reflections written by Fran^cois de La Rochefoucauld and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2008-05-08 with total page 399 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the fullest collection of La Rochefoucauld's writings ever published in English, and includes the first complete translation of the Miscellaneous Reflections. A table of alternative maxim numbers and an index of topics help the reader to locate any maxim quickly.

Download or read book Spiritual Maxims written by John Nicholas Grou and published by Fivestar. This book was released on 2024-03-09 with total page 125 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: According to the French Jesuit Cadres, the Caracteres de la vraie devotion of Pere Grou - a work which ran into no less than forty- four editions - was first published in Paris in the year 1788. This was quickly followed by a further work on the same subject, but treated from a somewhat different and more practical angle, the Maximes Spirituelles avec des explications, published in the following year. In his Preface to the original edition, reproduced here in its place, the author says: 'At the end of the little work which I wrote on the Marks of true devotion, I promised to write another under the title of Spiritual Maxims, in which I would explain in more detail the means for practicing that devotion. The following work is the result'. The former book defined what true devotion is: its motives, its object and the means for acquiring it; the second outlined in greater detail, as he says, the means for practicing that devotion, always bearing in mind that, in Pere Grou's use of the word, devotion stands for the interior life or the life of the spirit.

Download or read book Humanistic Studies written by University of Iowa and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 760 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book Humanistic Studies written by and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: