Title
Kant's highest good: The "Beck-Silber controversy" in the Spanish-speaking world
Date Issued
01 January 2017
Access level
metadata only access
Resource Type
journal article
Publisher(s)
Philosophy Documentation Center
Abstract
In the 1960s Lewis White Beck criticized Kant's highest good as a moral concept. In 1963 John Silber responded. Thus, the "Beck-Silber controversy." This paper explores such controversy in the Spanish literature. It begins identifying four criticisms: the problems of heteronomy, derivation, impossibility, and irrelevance. It then identifies a new problem rescued from the Spanish literature: dualism. After categorizing, following Matthew Caswell, the Spanish defenses into revisionists, secularizers, and maximalists, this paper assesses these defenses. The paper also translates sections of such literature into English and leaves us closer to a complete defense of the highest good by salvaging what it can of the Spanish literature's unique points.
Start page
57
End page
81
Volume
34
Issue
1
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
Filosofía
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-85014465388
Source
Faith and Philosophy
ISSN of the container
07397046
Sources of information:
Directorio de Producción Científica
Scopus