Lara Denis Bücher

Featuring fifteen new essays, this book is the only volume devoted to a scholarly study of Kant's lectures on ethics.

Focusing on the concept of duties to oneself, this extensive study explores the contributions of philosophers such as Marcia Baron, Joseph Butler, and Allen Wood within the framework of Kant's moral theory. It delves into the nature, foundation, and significance of moral self-regard, offering a comprehensive analysis of how self-respect and personal duties are integral to ethical considerations. This scholarly work aims to illuminate the complexities of self-regard in moral philosophy.

Immanuel Kant's Metaphysics of Morals (1797), containing the Doctrine of Right and Doctrine of Virtue, is his final major work of practical philosophy. Its focus is not rational beings in general but human beings in particular, and it presupposes and deepens Kant's earlier accounts of morality, freedom, and moral psychology. In this volume of newly-commissioned essays, a distinguished team of contributors explores the Metaphysics of Morals in relation to Kant's earlier works, as well as examining themes which emerge from the text itself. Topics include the relation between right and virtue, property, punishment, and moral feeling. Their diversity of questions, perspectives and approaches will provide new insights into the work for scholars in Kant's moral and political theory.

Moral Self-Regard draws on the work of Marcia Baron, Joseph Butler and Allen Wood, among others in this first extensive study of the nature, foundation and significance of duties to oneself in Kant's moral theory.