Much Obliged: Kantian Gratitude Reconsidere
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Kate Moran
Abstract:
In his published texts and lectures on moral philosophy, Kant repeatedly singles out gratitude for discussion. Nevertheless, puzzles about the derivation, content, and nature of this duty remain. This paper seeks to solve some of these puzzles. Centrally, I argue that it is essential to attend to a distinction that Kant makes between well-wishing benevolence (Wohlwollen) and active beneficence (Wohlthun) on the part of a benefactor. On the Kantian account, I argue, a different type of gratitude is owed in response to each. With this distinction in place, I argue further that we can construct what many have thought to be missing from Kant’s discussion of gratitude – an argument explicating the precise contradiction generated by a maxim of ingratitude.
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- Epicurus on Bivalence and the Excluded Middle
- Al-Suhrawardī’s Philosophy of Illumination and al-Ghazāl
- Leibniz’s Harmony between the Kingdoms of Nature and Grace
- Much Obliged: Kantian Gratitude Reconsidere
- Book Reviews
- Brian E. Johnson, The Role Ethics of Epictetus. Stoicism in Ordinary Life. Lanham: Lexington Books, 2014, pp. xv+216.
- R. Lanier Anderson, The Poverty of Conceptual Truth. Kant’s Analytic/Synthetic Distinction and the Limits of Metaphysics. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2015, pp. xviii+408
Artikel in diesem Heft
- Titelseiten
- Articles
- Epicurus on Bivalence and the Excluded Middle
- Al-Suhrawardī’s Philosophy of Illumination and al-Ghazāl
- Leibniz’s Harmony between the Kingdoms of Nature and Grace
- Much Obliged: Kantian Gratitude Reconsidere
- Book Reviews
- Brian E. Johnson, The Role Ethics of Epictetus. Stoicism in Ordinary Life. Lanham: Lexington Books, 2014, pp. xv+216.
- R. Lanier Anderson, The Poverty of Conceptual Truth. Kant’s Analytic/Synthetic Distinction and the Limits of Metaphysics. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2015, pp. xviii+408
