Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Note on Sources and Abbreviations
- Introduction
- 1 Two Centuries of Kantian Studies in Brazil
- 2 Self-Consciousness and Objective Knowledge in the Transcendental Deduction of the Critique of Pure Reason
- 3 Intuitive Knowledge and De Re Thought
- 4 Predicative Judgments and Existential Judgments: Apropos Kant's Critique of the Cartesian Ontological Argument
- 5 An Experiment with Practical Reason
- 6 On the Faktum of Reason
- 7 Critique, Deduction, and the Fact of Reason
- 8 The Noncircular Deduction of the Categorical Imperative in Groundwork III
- 9 The Distinction between Right and Ethics in Kant's Philosophy
- 10 Right and the Duty to Resist, or Progress toward the Better
- 11 The Fundamental Problem of Kant's Juridical Semantics
- 12 Right, History, and Practical Schematism
- 13 Cosmopolitanism: Kant and Kantian Themes in International Relations
- 14 A Typology of Love in Kant's Philosophy
- 15 The Meaning of the Term Gemüt in Kant
- 16 Between Prescriptive Poetics and Philosophical Aesthetics
- 17 The Purposiveness of Taste: An Essay on the Role of Zweckmässigkeit in Kant's Critique of Aesthetic Judgment
- 18 Freedom in Appearance: Notes on Schiller and His Development of Kant's Aesthetics
- 19 Reading the Appendix to Kant's Critique of the Teleological Power of Judgment
- 20 Symbolization in Kant's Critical Philosophy
- Bibliography of Works in German and English
- List of Contributors
- Index
14 - A Typology of Love in Kant's Philosophy
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 February 2013
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Note on Sources and Abbreviations
- Introduction
- 1 Two Centuries of Kantian Studies in Brazil
- 2 Self-Consciousness and Objective Knowledge in the Transcendental Deduction of the Critique of Pure Reason
- 3 Intuitive Knowledge and De Re Thought
- 4 Predicative Judgments and Existential Judgments: Apropos Kant's Critique of the Cartesian Ontological Argument
- 5 An Experiment with Practical Reason
- 6 On the Faktum of Reason
- 7 Critique, Deduction, and the Fact of Reason
- 8 The Noncircular Deduction of the Categorical Imperative in Groundwork III
- 9 The Distinction between Right and Ethics in Kant's Philosophy
- 10 Right and the Duty to Resist, or Progress toward the Better
- 11 The Fundamental Problem of Kant's Juridical Semantics
- 12 Right, History, and Practical Schematism
- 13 Cosmopolitanism: Kant and Kantian Themes in International Relations
- 14 A Typology of Love in Kant's Philosophy
- 15 The Meaning of the Term Gemüt in Kant
- 16 Between Prescriptive Poetics and Philosophical Aesthetics
- 17 The Purposiveness of Taste: An Essay on the Role of Zweckmässigkeit in Kant's Critique of Aesthetic Judgment
- 18 Freedom in Appearance: Notes on Schiller and His Development of Kant's Aesthetics
- 19 Reading the Appendix to Kant's Critique of the Teleological Power of Judgment
- 20 Symbolization in Kant's Critical Philosophy
- Bibliography of Works in German and English
- List of Contributors
- Index
Summary
In this paper I shall analyze what Kant says about the different kinds of love, trying to reconstruct what I call a typology of love. I begin with the feeling of sympathy in the Groundwork. Then, I examine the love of benevolence in the Doctrine of Virtue as a duty to love other human beings, which is a duty of virtue toward other people. The introduction of a feeling like love seems, at first sight, strange to the Kantian system, since the moral action should be practiced from duty and not because of sensible inclinations.
I shall show that the duty to love, one that implies the derived duties of beneficence (Wohltätigkeit), gratitude (Dankbarkeit), and sympathy (Teilnehmung), does not reject the purity of moral law. Although the a priori origin of the moral law remains valid, the Metaphysics of Morals deals with the moral applied to rational sensible beings, for which some feelings can be useful in the accomplishment of moral actions, when the respect for the law is not enough. Finally, using the Anthropology, I compare the virtue of love and three other kinds of inclinations: desire, the love-affect, and the love-passion.
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- Kant in Brazil , pp. 271 - 282Publisher: Boydell & BrewerPrint publication year: 2012