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This 1997 book was the first English translation of all of Kant's writings on moral and political philosophy collected in a single volume. No other collection competes with the comprehensiveness of this one. As well as Kant's most famous moral and political writings, the Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals, the Critique of Practical Reason, the Metaphysics of Morals, and Toward Perpetual Peace, the volume includes shorter essays and reviews, some of which have never been translated before. The volume has been furnished with a substantial editorial apparatus including translator's introductions and explanatory notes to each text by Mary Gregor, and a general introduction to Kant's moral and political philosophy by Allen Wood. There is also an English-German and German-English glossary of key terms.

This volume presents 12 original papers on the idea that moral objectivity is to be understood in terms of a suitably constructed social point of view that all can accept. The contributors offer new perspectives, some sympathetic and some critical, on constructivist understandings of morality and reason

Intro -- John Lachs's Practical Philosophy: Critical Essays on His Thought with Replies and Bibliography -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Prologue -- Part 1: The Practice of Philosophizing -- 1 Lachs on Transcendence: Art's Relation to the Life of Reason -- 2 Thinking in the World: Expanding the Practical Uses of Philosophy -- 3 Practical Posthumanism in the Philosophy of John Lachs -- 4 John Lachs's Relativism in Philosophical Education as Seen from a Practical Perspective -- 5 John Lachs, Meaningful Effort, and the Broken World -- Part 2: Philosophical Relationships -- 6 Lachs, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness -- 7 Lachs vs. Santayana -- 8 The Unadulterated Joy and the Pressure of Obligations in John Lachs's Philosophy -- Part 3 Stoic Pragmatism -- 9 How Stoic is Lachs's Pentapharmakos? -- 10 Toward an Ontology for Stoic Pragmatism -- 11 Self-Respect, Positive Power, and Stoic Pragmatism: Rawls, Dewey, and Lachs on Justice and Happiness -- 12 'Raisins in the Bread of Life': On the Practical Joys of Lachs's Stoic Pragmatism -- Part 4: Anthropology, Social Ethics, and Bioethics -- 13 The Unlived Life: The Main Nemesis of the Examined Life -- 14 Are Acts of Institutions Really Fully Analyzable into the Constituent Actions of Human Beings? -- 15 Mediation and Its Discontents -- 16 Facing Death: Preparing for Dying as a Social Process -- 17 John Lachs on Happiness and Individuality -- Part 5 Addendum -- 18 Immediacy and the Future -- 19 Death and Self-Importance -- Part 6: Comprehensive Bibliography of Primary and Secondary Sources -- Articles and Shorter Pieces -- Books -- Secondary Bibliography -- Directed Dissertations at Vanderbilt University -- Index

The author presents the central postulates from the latest works by John Rawls & Michael Walzer as the most prominent representatives of liberalism & communitarianism in contemporary US political philosophy & points to their predecessors & parallels in political philosophy, from Kant & Hegel to Mill & Dewey. Since liberals & communitarians of today do not any longer advocate a "society" or a "community" in the traditional sense, but the "posttraditional" liberal-democratic community in which liberal principles of justice & human rights can be realized, their thinking is interesting also to those peoples who have set out to build liberal-democratic societies outside the states of the developed West. Naturally, the realization of freedom & human rights depends on the cultural tradition of each people & on the historical "lebenswelt" in general, but also on the virtues of liberal citizens who, in a communal political life, realize "postulates of communality comprised in liberalism" (Walzer) & thus foster a free & good human life. Adapted from the source document.

Intro -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Contributors -- Chapter 1: Introduction -- Part I: Interpretations -- Chapter 2: From Affect to Action to Interpretation: On Michel Henry's Theoria of Immanent Praxis -- Chapter 3: Affective Labor and the Henry-Ricoeur Debate over Marx -- Chapter 4: Spiritual Life and Cultural Discernment: Renewing Spirituality through Henry -- Chapter 5: Working in the "World of Life": Michel Henry's Philosophy of Subjective Labor -- Chapter 6: Freud after Henry -- Chapter 7: The World or Life's Fragility: A New Critical Reading of Henry's Phenomenology of Life -- Part II: Applications -- Chapter 8: The Liberal Subject: The Politics of Life in Michel Henry -- Chapter 9: Michel Henry's Barbarism and the Practices of Education -- Chapter 10: Abstract Color and Esthetic Experience: Michel Henry Reading Kandinsky -- Chapter 11: Affectivity and Its Effects: Social Prospects for the Pathetic Community -- Index.

This book explores in detail the role that symbolic representation plays in the architecture of Kant's philosophy. By showing how the nature of symbolic representation plays out across all areas of Kant's practical philosophy Heiner Bielefeldt offers a unique perspective on how these various facets of Kant's philosophy cohere

How might we mend the world? Charles Blattberg suggests a "new patriotism," one that reconciles conflict through a form of dialogue that prioritizes conversation over negotiation and the common good over victory. This patriotism can be global as well as local, left as well as right.

How might we mend the world? Charles Blattberg suggests a "new patriotism," one that reconciles conflict through a form of dialogue that prioritizes conversation over negotiation and the common good over victory. This patriotism can be global as well as local, left as well as right.