Kant's Conception of Moral Character by G Felicitas Munzel

Kant's Conception of Moral Character by G Felicitas Munzel

Fashionable among critics of Enlightenment thought is the charge that Kant's ethics fails to provide an adequate account of character and its formation in moral and political life. This text challenges this reading of Kant's thought, claiming not only that Kant has a very rich notion of moral character, but also that it is a conception of systematic importance for his thought, linking the formal moral with the critical, aesthetic, anthropological, and biological aspects of his philosophy. The book focuses on character formation in Kant's moral philosophy, it builds on important work on Kant's aesthetics and anthropology, and brings these to bear on moral issues. The author traces Kant's multifaceted definition of character through the broad range of his writings, and then explores the structure of character, its actual exercise in the world, and its cultivation.

G. Felicitas Munzel is an associate professor in the Program of Liberal Studies and the depart­ment of philosophy at the University of Notre Dame.

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ISBN 13	9780226551340
ISBN 10	0226551342
Title	Kant's Conception of Moral Character
Author	G Felicitas Munzel
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	The University of Chicago Press
Year published	1998-07-01
Number of pages	400
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