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Herman, Barbara

 
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Synopsis

Herman (philosophy and law, U. of Southern California) accuses all of Kant's critics of obscuring and misinterpreting his thought on ethics, and thereby impoverishing everyone else's understanding of moral judgement and action. She reinterprets the key texts, and finds not a system of following rul

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Présentation de l'éditeur

Barbara Herman argues for a radical shift in the way we perceive Kant's ethics. She convincingly reinterprets the key texts, at once allowing Kant to mean what he says while showing that what Kant says makes good moral sense. She urges us to abandon the tradition that describes Kantian ethics as a deontology, a moral system of rules of duty. She finds the central idea of Kantian ethics not in duty but in practical rationality as a norm of unconditioned goodness. This book both clarifies Kant's own theory and adds programmatic vitality to modern moral philosophy.

Biographie de l'auteur

Barbara Herman is Griffin Professor of Philosophy at the University of California, Los Angeles.

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