Autonomy and Sympathy: A Post-Kantian Moral Image.B105 2004-116237 0-7618-3080-4 Autonomy and sympathy; a post-Kantian moral image. Peonidis, Filimon. Univ. Press of America, [c]2005 83 p. $19.00 (pa) Peonidis (philosophy, Aristotle Aristotle (ăr'ĭstŏt`əl), 384–322 B.C., Greek philosopher, b. Stagira. He is sometimes called the Stagirite. Life Aristotle's father, Nicomachus, was a noted physician. Aristotle studied (367–347 B.C. U. of Thessaloniki) combines the idea that Kant's moral philosophy can serve as the start of a "normative nor·ma·tive adj. Of, relating to, or prescribing a norm or standard: normative grammar. nor account," that ideas proposed after the time of Kant must be incorporated, including those that assign a major role to emotions, and that such a combination of ideas is practicable practicable adj. when something can be done or performed. . He begins by examining Kant's approach to ethics ethics, in philosophy, the study and evaluation of human conduct in the light of moral principles. Moral principles may be viewed either as the standard of conduct that individuals have constructed for themselves or as the body of obligations and duties that a in Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals The Metaphysics of Life (Die Metaphysik der Sitten, 1797) is a major work of moral philosophy by Immanuel Kant. It is not as well known or as widely read as his earlier works, Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals and the Critique of Practical Reason. , but then immediately describes maintaining a certain distance from Kant's thought and developing a post-Kantian moral subject. He then works through the idea of sympathy, starting from Kant's reasoning and covering empirical findings to support the idea that sympathy is a moral emotion. Peondis then adds the idea that those who feel sympathy value personal autonomy and assume obligations to continue and complete the image of moral tradition. |
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