Practical moral judgment

Author: (USA) Barbara Herman
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Publish Date: 2006-01-01
Features: As one of Rawls's most outstanding students, Barbara Herman is one of the leading figures in the flourishing study of Kantian ethics in the English-speaking world. This highly acclaimed work discards the traditional portrayal of Kantian ethics as deontological, arguing that its core concept is not duty or obligation but practical rationality. On this basis, it reconstructs and presents Kantian ethics as a powerful alternative to utilitarianism, virtue ethics, and postmodern individualism or existentialist ethics.