Ordinary goodness for ordinary people: an essay on the Kantian system

Thesis

Kant does not explicitly present an account of what one might call ordinary goodness for ordinary people, or the sense of moral worth one has in mind when one judges someone to be a “good person”: somewhat worryingly, when he does discuss the moral worth of people in Religion Within the Boundaries of Mere Reason, he seems to stray very far from terms which can apply to ordinary people in their everyday lives. Indeed, there is a plausible line of reasoning that owing to, f...

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Authors: Shapiro, JD

• Type of award: BPhil
• Level of award: Bachelors
• Awarding institution: University of Oxford
• Language: English
• Keywords: Determinism; Transcendental Compatibilism; Kant; Moral worth; Free will
• Subjects: Transcendental Idealism; Ethics; Free will problem