How Long to Read How Hume and Kant Reconstruct Natural Law

How Long Does it Take to Read How Hume and Kant Reconstruct Natural Law?

It takes the average reader 3 hours and 34 minutes to read How Hume and Kant Reconstruct Natural Law by Kenneth R. Westphal

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Description

Kenneth R. Westphal presents an original interpretation of Hume's and Kant's moral philosophies, the differences between which are prominent in current philosophical accounts. Westphal argues that focussing on these differences, however, occludes a decisive, shared achievement: a distinctive constructivist method to identify basic moral principles and to justify their strict objectivity, without invoking moral realism nor moral anti-realism or irrealism. Their constructivism is based on Hume's key insight that 'though the laws of justice are artificial, they are not arbitrary'. Arbitrariness in basic moral principles is avoided by starting with fundamental problems of social coördination which concern outward behaviour and physiological needs; basic principles of justice are artificial because solving those problems does not require appeal to moral realism (nor to moral anti-realism). Instead, moral cognitivism is preserved by identifying sufficient justifying reasons, which can be addressed to all parties, for the minimum sufficient legitimate principles and institutions required to provide and protect basic forms of social coördination (including verbal behaviour). Hume first develops this kind of constructivism for basic property rights and for government. Kant greatly refines Hume's construction of justice within his 'metaphysical principles of justice', whilst preserving the core model of Hume's innovative constructivism. Hume's and Kant's constructivism avoids the conventionalist and relativist tendencies latent if not explicit in contemporary forms of moral constructivism.

How long is How Hume and Kant Reconstruct Natural Law?

How Hume and Kant Reconstruct Natural Law by Kenneth R. Westphal is 208 pages long, and a total of 53,664 words.

This makes it 70% the length of the average book. It also has 66% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read How Hume and Kant Reconstruct Natural Law Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 4 hours and 53 minutes to read How Hume and Kant Reconstruct Natural Law aloud.

What Reading Level is How Hume and Kant Reconstruct Natural Law?

How Hume and Kant Reconstruct Natural Law is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

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