Kant and Rawls on the moral and political development of persons
Abstract/Contents
- Abstract
- My dissertation examines Kant's and Rawls's theories of the moral development of individuals within structured political communities. I reconstruct Kant's under-studied account of the emergence of reason I show how this account fits with his broader view of humankind's rational progress and the moral development of an individual. Next, I argue that Kant's anthropological and pedagogical writings influenced Rawls's early views on moral development explicated in his A Theory of Justice. In contrast to other commentators who have located Kant's influence on Rawls in his emphasis on the free and equal nature of human beings, my dissertation shows that Kant's anthropological theory of moral development is also at the core of Rawls's Kantian project. I also argue that the moral-psychological account Rawls develops in Part III of Theory sheds light on crucial aspects of Kant's practical philosophy, notably on Kant's emphasis on the need for one generation to provide the moral education of subsequent generations in order for stable moral development of humanity.
Description
| Type of resource | text |
|---|---|
| Form | electronic resource; remote; computer; online resource |
| Extent | 1 online resource. |
| Place | California |
| Place | [Stanford, California] |
| Publisher | [Stanford University] |
| Copyright date | 2021; ©2021 |
| Publication date | 2021; 2021 |
| Issuance | monographic |
| Language | English |
Creators/Contributors
| Author | Lenczewska, Olga |
|---|---|
| Degree supervisor | Bidadanure, Juliana |
| Thesis advisor | Bidadanure, Juliana |
| Thesis advisor | Estlund, David M |
| Thesis advisor | Hills, David James, 1947- |
| Thesis advisor | Wenar, Leif |
| Thesis advisor | Wood, Allen |
| Degree committee member | Estlund, David M |
| Degree committee member | Hills, David James, 1947- |
| Degree committee member | Wenar, Leif |
| Degree committee member | Wood, Allen |
| Associated with | Stanford University, Department of Philosophy |
Subjects
| Genre | Theses |
|---|---|
| Genre | Text |
Bibliographic information
| Statement of responsibility | Olga Lenczewska. |
|---|---|
| Note | Submitted to the Department of Philosophy. |
| Thesis | Thesis Ph.D. Stanford University 2021. |
| Location | https://purl.stanford.edu/pp821xb7996 |
Access conditions
- Copyright
- © 2021 by Olga Lenczewska
- License
- This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial 3.0 Unported license (CC BY-NC).
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