Kant, Ought Implies Can, the Principle of Alternate Possibilities, and Happiness
by
Samuel Kahn
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Hardback or Cased Book
ISBN-10
149851961X
ISBN-13
9781498519618
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Imprint
Lexington Books
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Dec 31st, 2018
Print length
280 Pages
Weight
570 grams
Dimensions
16.10 x 23.70 x 2.20 cms
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PhilosophyPhilosophy: logicEthics & moral philosophy
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This book examines three issues: the principle of ought implies can (OIC); the principle of alternate possibilities (PAP); and Kant’s views on the duty to promote one’s own happiness. It argues that although Kant was wrong to deny such a duty, the part of his denial that rests on a conception of duty incorporating both OIC and PAP is sound.
Throughout his corpus, Kant repeatedly and resolutely denies that there is a duty to promote one’s own happiness, and most present-day Kantians seem to agree with him. In Kant, Ought Implies Can, the Principle of Alternate Possibilities, and Happiness, Samuel Kahn argues that this denial rests on two main ideas: (1) a conception of duty that makes the principle of ought implies can (OIC) and the principle of alternate possibilities (PAP) analytic, and (2) the claim that humans necessarily promote their own happiness. This book defends OIC and PAP but nonetheless attacks the second idea, and it supplements this attack with two additional arguments—an interpersonal one and an intrapersonal one—for the claim that a modern day Kantian ethics should affirm a duty to promote one’s own happiness.
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