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Will, Obligatory Ends and the Completion of Practical Reason: Comments on Barbara Herman's Moral Literacy

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 March 2011

Andrews Reath
Andrews Reath*
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University of California, Riverside
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Email: andrews.reath@ucr.edu
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Abstract

This paper discusses three inter-related themes in Barbara Herman's Moral Literacy – the idea that, for Kant, the will is a ‘norm-constituted power’ whose activity is guided by its own internal norm, that the obligatory ends are reasonably viewed as the ends of all rational choice, and that morality ‘completes’ practical reason or rational agency.

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Kantian Review , Volume 16 , Issue 1 , 08 March 2011 , pp. 1 - 15
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Copyright © Kantian Review 2011

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References

Herman, Barbara (2008) Moral Literacy. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.Google Scholar
Reath, Andrews (2009) ‘Setting Ends through Reason’. In Simon Robertson (ed.), Spheres of Reason. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press.Google Scholar