Emotions in Kant's later moral philosophy: Honour and the phenomenology of moral value

Kant's Ethics of Virtue

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 123-145

  Anderson, Elizabeth ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

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DOI: 10.1515/9783110209655     Document Type: Chapter

References (19)

1. Immanuel Kant, 1981, Grounding for the Metaphysics of Morals, trans. by James Ellington, Indianapolis: Hackett (hereafter abbreviated as G), 442-4
2. Immanuel Kant, 1991, The Metaphysics of Morals, 376. trans. by Mary Gregor, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (hereafter abbreviated as MM), Note: Pagination for all texts by Kant except for the Anthropology, Conjectural Beginnings, and Lectures on Ethics refer to the Prussian Academy edition of Kant's complete works.
3. [MM 6: 408- 9]
4. Immanuel Kant, 1978, Anthropology from a Pragmatic Point of View, trans. by Victor Lyell Dowdell, Carbondale & Edwardsville: Southern Illinois University Press (hereafter abbreviated as APPV), 158.
5. Immanuel Kant, 1956, Critique of Practical Reason, trans. by Lewis White Beck, Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill (hereafter abbreviated as (CPrR), 22-3.
6. Immanuel Kant, 1979, Lectures on Ethics, trans. by Louis Infield, Indianapolis: Hackett, 150, 159.
7. Immanuel Kant, 1798, "Conjectural Beginning of the History of Mankind", Essays and Treatises on Moral, Political, and Various Philosophical Subjects, London: William Richardson, 1 321-3.
8. John Dewey, James Tufts, 1932, Ethics, New York: H. Holt and Company, 216.
9. Immanuel Kant, 1963, Idea for a Universal History from a Cosmopolitan Point of View, On History, trans. by Lewis White Beck, Bobbs-Merrill (10. October 2005)., http://www.marxists.org/reference/subject/ethics/kant/universal-history.htm
10. Immanuel Kant, 1960, Religion Within the Limits of Reason Alone, trans. and ed. by Theodore Greene and Hoyt Hudson, New York: Harper & Row, 175.
11. Thomas Scanlon, 1998, What We Owe to Each Other, Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press.
12. Elizabeth Anderson, 1995, Practical Reason and Incommensurable Goods, Incommensurability and Value, Ruth Chang (ed.), Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press.
13. Marcel Mauss, 1967, The Gift, I. Cunnison (trans.), New York: W. W. Norton.
14. Elizabeth Anderson, 2004, Ethical Assumptions of Economic Theory: Some Lessons from the History of Credit and Bankruptcy, Ethical Theory and Moral Practice 7, 347-60.
15. Kant 1979: 150 ("I should endeavor to preserve my own life only so far as I am worthy to live.").
16. Kant 1979: 152 ("It is better to sacrifice one's life than one's morality. To live is not a necessity; but to live honourably while one's life lasts is a necessity.").
17. There remains the puzzle of why Kant commends the suicide of an unjustly convicted innocent man who kills himself to avoid the disgrace of execution (Kant 1979: 155). This is inconsistent with Kant's position on duelling, and with his general ethic of respect. It is further evidence that the genealogy of Kant's ethic of commanding value originates in the honour ethic. It reveals how his applied ethic is a transitional stage from an ethic of honour to an ethic of universal respect.
18. It follows from this that there is no genuine shame to the rape victim in succumbing to rape rather than fighting to her death, since she does what duty requires. Kant's readiness to despise those who submit to degrading treatment for lack of other ways to preserve their lives is further evidence that Kant's ethics grew out of the honour ethic.
19. Sharon La Franiere, 2005, Entrenched Epidemic: Wife-Beatings in Africa, New York Times, 11 August.