Preface; 1. Reason; 2. Moral worth; 3. Ethical theory; 4. The moral law; 5. Humanity; 6. Autonomy; 7. Freedom; 8. Virtue; 9. Duties; 10. Conscience; 11. Social justice; 12. Punishment; 13. Sex; 14. Lies; 15. Consequences.
This book examines Kant's views on ethics and how they may be used to develop a viable ethical theory.
Allen Wood is Ward W. and Pricilla B. Woods Professor at Stanford University. He was a John S. Guggenheim Fellow at the Free University in Berlin, and a national Endowment for the Humanities Fellow at the University of Bonn. He developed parts of this book in the 2005 Isaiah Berlin Lectures at Oxford University. Along with Paul Guyer, Professor Wood is co-editor of the Cambridge Edition of the Works of Immanuel Kant and translator of the Critique of Pure Reason. He is the author or editor of a number of other works, mainly on Kant, Hegel and Karl Marx.
"In this rich and rewarding new book, Allen Wood...succeeds at delivering a defense of Kantian ethics that should satisfy, in terms of its philosophical credentials, any philosopher interested in ethics...Allen Wood's book remains an indispensable contribution to contemporary ethical theory." -Noell Birondo, Pomona College, Notre Dame Philosophical Review "Wood offers an interpretation of Kant's own ethical theory and a rational reconstruction and defense of Kantian ethics, as there are topics -- such as marriage, punishment, race, and sex -- where Kantian ethics lead to conclusions different from those of Kant himself...This book will enable readers to learn more about the current debates [on Kant]...Highly recommended." -J.M. Fritzman, Lewis and Clark College, Choice
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