Ethics

Volume III
1. Auflage 2002
ISBN: 978-0-415-29572-7
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 288 Seiten, Format (B × H): 145 mm x 222 mm, Gewicht: 499 g

Reihe: D. Ethics

This volume is devoted to the thesis that morality is possible only in a world determined throughout, mentally as well as physically, by the law of cause and effect. But as organic life, although deupon mechanical laws, cannot be explained by them, so moral life cannot be explained by physiological and psychological processes. Responsibility, imputability, and the sense of guilt imply that man is free to do otherwise than he actually does. If man is not free in this sense, then his consciousness of responsibility and of guilt is a delusion. He is in fact determined neither by the moral law nor by the laws of nature, but is self-determined.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Hartmann, Nicolai

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Philosophie: Allgemeines, Methoden

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Volume 3: PART III THE PROBLEM OF THE FREEDOM OF THE WILL (THE METAPHYSIC OF MORALS) Section I PRELIMINARY CRITICAL QUESTIONS I. THE CONNECTIONS OF THE PROBLEM II. HISTORICAL DEVELOPMENT OF THE PROBLEM OF FREEDOM Section II THE CAUSAL ANTINOMY PACE IV. THE SIGNIFICANCE OF KANT'S SOLUTION V. DETERMIN ISM AND INDETERMINISM VI. DETERMINISM, CAUSAL AND FINALISTIC VII. ONTOLOGICAL REGULARITY AS THE BASIS OF FREEDOM Section III THE ANTINOMY OF THE OUGHT VIII. CRITICISM OF THE KANTIAN DOCTRINE OF FREEDOM X. THE' PRESENT STATE OF THE PROBLEM Section IV ETHICAL PHENOMENA, THEIR EFFICACY AS PROOFS XI. PROOFS OF METAPHYSICAL OBJECTS XII. MORAL JUDGMENT AND THE CONSCIOUSNESS OF SELF-DETERMINATION XIII. RESPONSIBILITY AND ACCOUNTABILITY XIV. THE CONSCIOUSNESS OF GUILT XV. SUPPLEMENTARY GROUPS OF FACTS XVI. OUGHT AND THE WILL Section V ONTOLOGICAL POSSIBILITY OF PERSONAL FREEDOM XVII. AUTONOMY OF THE PERSON AND DETERMINATION OF VALUES XVIII. SOLUTION OF THE OUGHT-ANTINOMY XIX. PROBLEMS STILL UNSOLVED Section VI APPENDIX TO THE DOCTRINE OF FREEDOM CHAPTER XX. APPARENT AND REAL DEFECTS OF THE THEORY XXI. ETHICAL AND RELIGIOUS FREEDOM, INDEX.

Über Autor(innen)

Nicolai Hartmann, Professor of Philosophy, University of Berlin, translated by Stanton Coit.