ISBN : 9780190692100
Throughout his writings, Immanuel Kant offers, but does not clearly defend, the claim that evil involves self-deception. Laura Papish's Kant on Evil, Self-Deception, and Moral Reform explains why Kant sees self-deception as implicated in evil and how, by contrast, human beings can develop a self-knowledge that facilitates moral reform.
Introduction
Chapter One: The Self of Self-Love
Chapter Two: Evil and the Subordination of the Moral Law
Chapter Three: Kantian Self-Deception
Chapter Four: Self-Deception, the Necessary Conditions of Evil, and the Entrenchment of Evil
Chapter Five: Self-Deception, Dissimulation, and the Universality of Evil in Human Nature
Chapter Six: Kantian Self-Cognition
Chapter Seven: Kant's Two-Stage Model of Moral Reform
Chapter Eight: Moral Misunderstandings and the Ethical Community
Conclusion
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