Kant on Evil, Self-Deception, and Moral Reform Laura Papish

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• ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0190692103
• ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0190692100
• Author(s): Laura Papish

Throughout his writings, and particularly in Religion within the Boundaries of Mere Reason,Kant alludes to the idea that evil is connected to self-deceit, and while numerous commentators regard this as a highly attractive thesis, none have seriously explored it. Laura Papish’s Kant on Evil, Self-Deception, and Moral Reform addresses this crucial element of Kant’s ethical theory.

Working with both Kant’s core texts on ethics and materials less often cited within scholarship on Kant’s practical philosophy (such as Kant’s logic lectures), Papish explores the cognitive dimensions of Kant’s accounts of evil and moral reform while engaging the most influential — and often scathing — of Kant’s critics. Her book asks what self-deception is for Kant, why and how it is connected to evil, and how we achieve the self-knowledge that should take the place of self-deceit. She offers novel defenses of Kant’s widely dismissed claims that evil is motivated by self-love and that an evil is rooted universally in human nature, and she develops original arguments concerning how social institutions and interpersonal relationships facilitate, for Kant, the self-knowledge that is essential to moral reform.

Table contents:

Introduction
1. The Self of Self-Love
2. Evil and the Subordination of the Moral Law
3. Kantian Self-Deception
4. Self-Deception, the Necessary Conditions of Evil, and the Entrenchment of Evil
5. Self-Deception, Dissimulation, and the Universality of Evil in Human Nature
6. Kantian Self-Cognition
7. Kant’s Two-Stage Model of Moral Reform
8. Moral Misunderstandings and the Ethical Community
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index

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