• Contents


• Note on Citations and Translations


• Introduction


• PART I HUMAN VIRTUES


• 1. Kant's Virtue Ethics


• 2. Moral Strength: Virtue as a Duty to Oneself


• 3. Kantian Moral Humility: Between Aristotle and Paul


• 4. "Firm as Rock in Her Own Principles" (But Not Necessarily a Kantian)


• PART II ANTHROPOLOGY AND ETHICS


• 5. The Second Part of Morals


• 6. Applying Kant's Ethics: The Role of Anthropology


• 7. Anthropology from a Kantian Point of View: Toward a Cosmopolitan Conception of Human Nature


• 8. Making the Law Visible: The Role of Examples in Kant's Ethics


• PART III EXTENSIONS OF ANTHROPOLOGY


• 9. Evil Everywhere: The Ordinariness of Kantian Radical Evil


• 10."The Play of Nature:" Human Beings in Kant's Geography


• 11. Becoming Human: Kant and the Philosophy of Education


• 12. National Character via the Beautiful and Sublime?


• Notes


• Bibliography


• Index

Robert B. Louden is Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at the University of Southern Maine. His publications include The World We Want (OUP 2007), Kant's Impure Ethics (OUP 2000), and Morality and Moral Theory (OUP 1992). Currently president of the North American Kant Society, his writings focus on core issues and themes in ethical theory, the history of ethics, and Kant.

In Kant's Human Being, Robert B. Louden continues and deepens avenues of research first initiated in his highly acclaimed book, Kant's Impure Ethics.