The morals of metaphysics: Kant's Groundwork as intellectual Paideia

Critical Inquiry

Volumn 28, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 908-929

  Hunter, Ian ^a  

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DOI: 10.1086/341237     Document Type: Review

References (33)

1. Pierre Hadot, Philosophy as a Way of Life: Spiritual Exercises from Socrates to Foucault, trans. Michael Chase, ed. Arnold I. Davidson (Oxford, 1995), p. 101.
2. See, for example, Paul Rabbow, Seelenführung: Methodik der Exerzitien in der Antike (Munich, 1954);
3. Michel Foucault, The Use of Pleasure, trans. Robert Hurley, vol. 2 of The History of Sexuality (New York, 1985);
4. and Peter Brown, Power and Persuasion in Late Antiquity: Towards a Christian Empire (Madison, 1992)
5. and The Body and Society: Men, Women, and Sexual Renunciation in Early Christianity (New York, 1988).
6. See Beroald Thomassen, Metaphysik als Lebensform: Untersuchungen zur Grundlegung der Metaphysik im Metaphysikkommentar Alberts des Grossen (Münster, 1985).
7. See Dorothee Kimmich, Epikureische Aufklärungen: Philosophische und poetische Konzepte der Selbstsorge (Darmstadt, 1993);
8. Atoms, Pneuma, and Tranquility: Epicurean and Stoic Themes in European Thought, ed. Margaret J. Osler (Cambridge, 1991);
9. and Gerhard Oestreich, Neostoicism and the Early Modern State, trans. David McLintock (Cambridge, 1982).
10. See Donald W. Livingston, Philosophical Melancholy and Delirium: Hume's Pathology of Philosophy (Chicago, 1998).
11. See Foucault, "My Body, This Paper, This Fire," trans. Geoffrey Bennington, Oxford Literary Review 4 (Autumn 1979): 5-28.
12. See John Rawls, "Themes in Kant's Moral Philosophy," Collected Papers, ed. Samuel Freeman (Cambridge, Mass., 1999), pp. 497-528.
13. See Alasdair MacIntyre, After Virtue: A Study in Moral Theory, 2d ed. (Notre Dame, Ind., 1984),
14. and Michael J. Sandel, Liberalism and the Limits of Justice, 2d ed. (Cambridge, 1998).
15. For a more detailed discussion, see my Rival Enlightenments: Civil and Metaphysical Philosophy in Early Modern Germany (Cambridge, 2001).
16. Immanuel Kant, Grundlegung zur Metaphysik der Sitten, in Kants Gesammelte Schriften, ed. Royal Prussian (later German) Academy of Sciences, 29 vols, to date (Berlin, 1900- ), 4:389, hereafter abbreviated AK;
17. trans. Mary J. Gregor, under the title Practical Philosophy (Cambridge, 1996), pp. 44-45, hereafter abbreviated PP. I have adjusted the Cambridge translations wherever necessary.
18. For discussions of Kant's "pragmatic" anthropology - that is, for discussions that ignore the role of his metaphysical anthropology in shaping the moral law itself - see Wood, "Unsociable Sociability: The Anthropological Basis of Kantian Ethics," Philosophical Topics 19 (Spring 1991): 325-51,
19. and G. Felicitas Munzel, Kant's Conception of Moral Character: The "Critical" Link of Morality, Anthropology, and Reflective Judgment (Chicago, 1999).
20. For further discussion, see Bogumil Jasinowski, "Leibniz und der Übergang der Mittelalterlichen in die moderne Philosophie," Studia Leibnitiana, nos. 3-4 (1972): 253-63;
21. and Hunter, Rival Enlightenments.
22. Rawls, "Themes in Kant's Moral Philosophy" p. 498.
23. Christine M. Korsgaard, Creating the Kingdom of Ends (Cambridge, 1996), p. 30; hereafter abbreviated C.
24. Wood, Kant's Ethical Thought (Cambridge, 1999), p. 8; hereafter abbreviated KET.
25. See, for example, Samuel Pufendorf, On the Duty of Man and Citizen According to Natural Law, trans. Michael Silverthorne, ed. James Tully (Cambridge, 1991), pp. 33-38, 132-34.
26. See C, pp. 55-67; Karl Ameriks, "Kant on the Good Will," in Grundlegung zur Metaphysik der Sitten: Ein kooperativer Kommentar, ed. Otfried Höffe (Frankfurt am Main, 1989) pp. 45-65;
27. and KET, pp. 17-49.
28. See Thomassen, Metaphysik als Lebensform, pp. 115-31.
29. Compare the more general characterization of the "mode of [ethical] subjection" in Foucault, The Use of Pleasure, p. 27.
30. Korsgaard, "Motivation, Metaphysics, and the Value of the Self: A Reply to Ginsborg, Guyer, and Schneewind," Ethics 109 (Oct. 1998): 61.
31. and Dieter Henrich, "The Concept of Moral Insight and Kant's Doctrine of the Fact of Reason," trans. Manfred Kuehn, The Unity of Reason: Essays on Kant's Philosophy, trans. Jeffrey Edwards et al., ed. Richard L. Velkley (Cambridge, Mass., 1994), pp. 54-87.
32. and Ludger Honnefelder, Scientia transcendens: Die formale Bestimmung der Seiendheit und Realität in der Metaphysik des Mittelalters und der Neuzeit (Duns Scotus-Suárez-Wolff-Kant-Peirce) (Hamburg, 1990).
33. Henrich, "The Concept of Moral Insight and Kant's Doctrine of the Fact of Reason," p. 62.