Recommended reading for Lee's
seminar on Kantian Ethics
[These readings are, of course, in addition to those assigned for the course.]
Grounding 1
On whether there is moral worth only in actions done from the motive
of duty:
- Judith Baker, "Do One's Motives have to be Pure?" in Richard E. Grandy
&
Richard Warner, eds., Philosophical Grounds of Rationality:
Intentions, Categories, Ends (Clarendon, 1986)
- Paul Guyer, "Duty and Inclination" chapter 10 of Kant and the
Experience of Freedom (Cambridge, 1993), especially section I
- Marcia Baron, "The Alleged Moral Repugnance of Acting from Duty"
The
Journal of Philosophy 81 (1984) [more on arguments about the issue
than about interpretation of Kant as such]
On the nature of rational motivation:
- Mark timmons, "Kant's Strategy in the Ethical Works: The Construction
of a Rationalist Internalism" Southwest Philosophical Studies
8#1 (1982) pp. 103-111
Richard
Lee, rlee@comp.uark.edu,
last modified: 11 September 1996