Ends and Principles in Kant's Moral Thought - Atwell, John E.

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I: Introduction: Background and the central problem.- 1. Human knowledge and the knowable world.- 2. Freedom: The chief condition of morality.- 3. Types of moral theories.- 4. Ends and principles: Inconsistencies?.- II: Ends and the good will.- 1. Conditioned goods and the unconditioned good.- 2. Prima facie goods and the absolute good.- 3. The uniqueness of a good will.- 4. The irrelvance of ends.- 5. A note on respect for the moral law.- III: Maxims.- 1. Three kinds of maxims: Incentival, actional, and dispositional.- 2. Alternative accounts of Kantian Maxims.- 3. Preliminary elucidation of actional maxims.- 4. What maxims (and the adoption of maxims) are not.- 5. On formulating maxims.- IV: Universality and the categorical imperative.- 1. The general nature of imperatives.- 2. The principle of universality of nature.- 3. Suicide and lying promises.- 4. Neglect of talents and refusal to help others.- V: Ends and moral obligation.- 1. The problem of objecitve ends.- 2. Man as the objective end-in-itself.- 3. The alleged inconsistency.- 4. End which are duties.- 5. The highest good.- VI: The principle of humanity.- 1. Initial remarks.- 2. Treatment of others as means.- 3. Humanity in others as a positive end in itself: The duty of love for others.- 4. Respect for humanity in one's own person: Duties to oneself.- VII: Autonomy of the Will.- 1. The principle of autonomy of the will as a moral criterion.- 2. Autonomy and the possibility of morals.- 3. The kingdom of ends.- 4. Responsibility for wrong acts and accountability for moral evil.- VIII: Duties, rights, and ends in the political order.- 1. The alleged right to revolt.- 2. Kant's paradoxical stand on revolution.- 3. The alleged right to lie from benevolence.- 4. The end of nature in human history.- IX:Happiness and law-morality.- 1. Morality and happiness.- 2. Law-morality and atheism.- 3. Conclusion.