Chapter 5: Moral Worth and Motivation in Kant’s Criticism of Sentimentalist Ethics

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Note on Sources, Abbreviations, and Translations xi
4. Acknowledgements xv
5. Introduction 1
6. Part I: Obligatory Ends, Material Practical Principles, and Practical Law in Kant’s Doctrine of Morals 13
7. Chapter 1: Reason’s Lawgiving and Obligatory Ends in the Metaphysics of Morals 15
8. Chapter 2: Obligatory Ends and the Grounding of Maxims: A Key Problem in Kant’s Moral Doctrine of Ends 35
9. Chapter 3: The Principle of Self-Love and Material Practical Principles in the Critique of Practical Reason 51
10. Part II: Moral Worth and Motivation in Kant and Hume 79
11. Chapter 4: Eudaimonistic Etiology, Own-Perfection, and Moral Worth 81
12. Chapter 5: Moral Worth and Motivation in Kant’s Criticism of Sentimentalist Ethics 97
13. Part III: Kant’s Juridical Theory of Right and the Foundations of Property Law 123
14. Chapter 6: Original Community, Possession, and Acquisition in Kant’s Doctrine of Right 129
15. Chapter 7: Original Acquisition in Kant, Grotius, and Selden 149
16. Part IV: Placing Kant in his History of Moral Philosophy 171
17. Chapter 8: Kant’s Classification of Material Principles of Morality in the Critique of Practical Reason 172
18. Chapter 9: Hutcheson and Rousseau in the Development of Kant’s Doctrine of Morals 184
19. Chapter 10: Sentimentalist Ethics and Natural Law 206
20. Chapter 11: Kant and the Role of the Honestum in Sentimentalist and Rationalist Ethics 240
21. Chapter 12: Natural Right, Material Equality, and the Normative Basis of Acquisition 272
22. Conclusion 294
23. Bibliography 322
24. Index 343