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Kant on Absolute Value

A Critical Examination of Certain Key Notions in Kant's 'Groundwork of the Metaphysic of Morals' and of his Ontology of Personal Value
By:Patrick Æ. Hutchings
Publisher:Taylor & Francis
Print ISBN:9780367135867
eText ISBN:9780429639999
Edition:1
Copyright:1972
Format:Reflowable

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The thesis of this book, first published in 1972, is that Kant’s notions of ‘absolute worth’, the ‘unconditioned’ and ‘unconditioned worth’ are rationalistic and confused, and that they spoil his ontology of personal value and tend to subvert his splendid idea of the person as an End in himself.