Part 1. The principles of practical reason : The normativity of instrumental reason -- The myth of egoism -- Self-constitution in the ethics of Plato and Kant -- Part 2. Moral virtue and moral psychology : Aristotle's function argument -- Aristotle on function and virtue -- From duty and for the sake of the noble: Kant and Aristotle on morally good action -- Acting for a reason -- Part 3. Other reflections : Taking the law into our own hands: Kant on the right to revolution -- The general point of view: love and moral approval in Hume's ethics -- Realism and constructivism in twentieth-century moral philosophy
Summary
Christine M. Korsgaard is one of the leading moral philosophers this volume collects ten influential papers by her on practical reason and moral psychology. She draws on the work of such great philosophers as Plato, Aristotle, Kant, and Hume, showing how their ideas can inform the solution of contemporary and traditional problems
