Revisiting Kant's Universal Law and Humanity Formulas.
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Intro -- List of Abbreviations -- 1 Introduction: The Human Nature Formula -- 1.1 Korsgaard on Self-Constitution in the Ethics of Plato and Kant -- 1.2 How Kant's Constitutivism (as I Understand It) Differs from Korsgaard's -- 1.3 The Role of Kant's Constitutivism in the Groundwork (and the Human Nature Formula) -- 1.4 The Kantian View of Categorical Imperatives of Practical Reason -- 1.5 On the Coming Chapters -- 1.6 Reinterpreting the Universal Law Formula -- 2 Introduction -- 2.1 On The Standard Readings -- 2.2 Seven Objections to the Universal Law Formula -- 2.3 Two Radically Different Conclusions We Can Draw -- 2.4 Eight Steps Towards a New Understanding of the Universal Law Formula -- 2.5 Eight Steps Towards a New Reading, Continued -- 2.6 How to Understand the Universal Law Formula (and Its Relation to the Humanity Formula) -- 2.7 Why the Seven Objections Discussed Above All Misfire -- 2.8 Why the Seven Objections All Misfire, Continued -- 2.9 Looking Ahead -- 2.1 Kant's Argument for the Humanity Formula -- 3 Introduction -- 3.1 Kant's Argument for the Humanity Formula in His Own Words -- 3.2 The Reconstructions of Korsgaard, Wood, and other Members of the American School: Preliminaries -- 3.3 The Reconstructions of Korsgaard, Wood, and other Members of the American School, Continued -- 3.4 Three Objections to the Just-Reviewed Reconstructions of Kant's Reasoning -- 3.5 On the Absolute Value of a Good Will and the Worthiness to Be Happy -- 3.7 How to Understand Kant's Argument for the Humanity Formula -- 3.8 Is Our Reconstruction Uncharitable to Kant? -- 4 Permissibility, Virtue, and the Highest Good -- 4.1 Some Distinctions -- 4.2 Scanlon and Parfit's Objections to the Humanity Formula as a Test for Permissibility -- 4.3 Why Scanlon and Parfit's Objections Fail -- 4.4 A Kantian Moral Saint? -- 4.5 Human Flourishing and the Highest Good. 4.6 Human Flourishing and the Highest Good, Continued -- 4.7 Concluding Remarks -- Bibliography -- Index.