Table of Contents

Introduction
1: Kantian Analysis: From Duty to Autonomy
2: Is Good Will Over-Rated?
3: Hypothetical Consent in Kantian Constructivism
4: Beneficence and Self-Love
5: Reasonable Self-Interest
6: Happiness and Human Flourishing
7: Meeting Needs and Doing Favors
8: Personal Values and Setting Ends
9: Four Conceptions of Conscience
10: Wrongdoing, Desert, and Punishment
11: Punishment, Conscience, and Moral Worth
12: Moral Dilemmas, Gaps, and Residues
Bibliography, Index

About the Author

Thomas E. Hill, Jr., is Kenan Professor of Philosophy at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.

Reviews

This collection brings together work of the calibre that has made Thomas E. Hill, Jr., a leader in the interpretation and development of Kant's ethics. Hill exhibits a rare combination of sensitivity to complex moral issues, insight into Kant's texts, and analytical incisivenss. In clear, jargon-free prose, these essays expertly draw the reader into the core of Kantian moral philosophy. Ethics Human Welfare and Moral Worth gives us plenty to think about ... the volume has the great virtue of defending positions that are subtle and reasonable as well as innovative and engaging. Ethics ... splendidly produced volume. Thomas Hill has developed a distinctive line of Kant exposition and analysis which will repay close reading and careful consideration. Hill is an attentive and sensitive interpreter of Kant who takes Kant's major ethical writings as a starting point rather than an end point of argument. Hill is concerned to establish how Kant's practical philosophy engages with our lives and society and in an instructive and stimulating way. Hill is scholarly without being unduly scholastic. His project is to bring Kant's ideas alive by relating them to our contemporary moral and political dilemmas. In this I think he succeeds. Kantian Review