Kant and the Origins of the Good Will by Kain, Patrick

Kant and the Origins of the Good Will (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780198960829)

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Kant and the Origins of the Good Will by Kain, Patrick

Kant and the Origins of the Good Will

$165.00
Kant and the Origins of the Good Will by Kain, Patrick

Kant and the Origins of the Good Will

$165.00
Format: Hardcover
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Kant and the Origins of the Good Will is an in-depth study of the development of Immanuel Kant's moral philosophy from its beginnings in the 1750s up to the mid-1780s. The book also examines how Kant's moral views intersect with aspects of his metaphysics, epistemology, and philosophy of religion.

The good will and the dignity of humanity are centralâbut often overlooked or controverted-elements of Kant's moral philosophy. In this volume, Patrick Kain systematically investigates the origins and emergence of Kant's moral philosophy, as well as the significance of the good will and the dignity of humanity within it. Starting with some of Kant's early published works, notes and drafts, and student notes from his lectures in a wide range of disciplines, the book examines Kant's thought over the course of several decades.

Kain's analysis of Kant begins with a careful historical and philosophical reconstruction of his conception of the divine will, which reflected, influenced, and informed his developing moral philosophy. Kant and the Origins of the Good Will then provides a detailed interpretation of the emergence of Kant's moral philosophy prior to the publication of the Groundwork (1785). This study of the place of the good will and the dignity of humanity in Kant's thought sheds new light on the origins and content of Kant's published works on moral philosophy in the 1780s.

Author: Patrick Kain
ISBN-10: 0198960824
ISBN-13: 9780198960829
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Language: English
Published: 03/23/2026
Pages: 368
Format: Hardcover
By Patrick Kain
By Patrick Kain
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Patrick Kain, Associate Professor of Philosophy, Purdue University

Patrick Kain is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Purdue University and a founding faculty fellow in the Cornerstone Integrated Liberal Arts Program. His primary teaching responsibilities and scholarly interests are in ethics, the history of modern philosophy, and transformative texts. He received his PhD from the University of Notre Dame and joined the Purdue faculty in 2000. Kain was Humboldt Research Fellow at Philipps-Universität Marburg, Germany in 2003 and the Alvin Plantinga Research Fellow at the University of Notre Dame in 2018-19. Kain received the 2022 Henry Allison Senior Scholar Prize from the North American Kant Society.

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