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Showing 1 to 9 of 9 for “"highest good"”.
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An Overarching Defense of Kant's Idea of the Highest Good
… an overarching defense of Kant's idea of the highest good, against the criticisms pointed out in the English-speaking world, within the framework of the so-called "Beck-Silber controversy."</p><p>As it is known, since the second half of the last century, when the "Beck-Silber controversy" …
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Prudence and providence in Kant
… happiness makes a return in Kant's theory of the highest good. The highest good is the final goal of morality for Kant, referring to a world in which happiness is distributed in proportion to moral virtue. To promote the highest good, however, is to promote the moral goals of universal happiness …
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Classical Trinitarian Theology and the Idolatry of Nationalism: The Doctrine of the Trinity as a Critique of Political Theology
… that while theology is a discourse about the highest good, which is God, every political community must itself be oriented toward a good. Thus every theology implies a politics, and every politics contains a theology. The nation, therefore, functions as a “god” in the public theology of the …
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Perfection, History, and Harmonious Individuality: Herder's Ethical Thought, 1765-1791
… Herder and Moses Mendelssohn concerning the highest good, or vocation of man. I then look at how the ideas sketched in these earlier works were filled out in Abhandlung ber den Ursprung der Sprache (1772), Auch eine Philosophie der Geschichte zur Bildung der Menschheit (1774), Vom Erkennen …
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Humanity in the Balance: The Relationship Between the Moral Law and the Promotion of the Moral World in Kant's Ethics
… as providing the only possible path to the highest end, a moral world. On my view, Kant's formal ethics and his teleology do not then represent stages in his thinking, or pieces of his thinking that stand at odds with one another; they are instead to be seen as two inseparable pieces of the …
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Guidance Procedures for Religious Vocations in Coeducational Secondary Schools of the Archdiocese of Omaha
… is a call of love to love, a call to seek the highest good by living the highest life, a call that comes from God as a gift of His love for us and can be truly accepted only by the response of our love for Him. To say, therefore, that there are no more vocations would be equivalent to saying …
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The material in salvific discourse : a study of two Christian perspectives.
… because the material realm is viewed as the highest good or an end in itself. This view of the material realm is especially evident in the popular Neo-Pentecostal Christianity or the 'New' Christianity spreading throughout the continent, growing on the promise of improved material well being …
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Virtue and the Philosophical Life in the Thomist Tradition at the University of Padua, from Aquinas to Cajetan (1225-1534)
… the ultimate, complete, and self-sufficient good for human nature. De Libera concluded that the 1277 condemnations drove this conception of the philosophical life out of the university context entirely. However, if we consider a closely related question concerning the virtues, we find that, …
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A Hindu Perspective on Justice in a World of Suffering: A Caitanya Vaiṣṇava Response to the Problem of Evil
… that Prabhupāda’s conceives of God as being all-good, all-powerful, and all-knowing. I maintain that selves in Prabhupāda’s conceptual framework are free, according to a definition of freedom that I put forth and develop. I also establish a moral ontology that defines the highest good as divine …