Part I Three Views of Marxism’s Relation to Kant’s Ethics

Introduction to Part I

1 Against the Irrelevance View
 1 The Instrumental Reasons Argument
 2 The False Claims Argument
 3 The Ideology Argument
 4 The Class Interests Argument
 5 Summary

2 Against the Complementarity View, Part 1: Socialist Strategy
 1 The Complementarity View: Stammler, Staudinger, Vorländer
 2 An Objection to the Complementarity View
 3 The Deficient Self-Understanding Claim: A Critique

3 Against the Complementarity View, Part 2: Can Kant’s Formula of the End in Itself Condemn Capitalism?
 1 FEI-Based Arguments against Capitalism
 2 Kant’s Never Merely as a Means Principle
 3 Applying FEI: Some General Considerations
 4 Applying FEI beyond Kant
 5 Evaluation of the Arguments
 6 FEI and General Injustice
 7 Conclusion

4 Against the Incompatibility View
 1 Two Components of Human Freedom
 2 Marx on Human Freedom
 3 The True Realm of Freedom and the Realm of Necessity
 4 The Link to Autonomy
 5 Marx on the Autonomy of a Human Community
 6 Marx’s Commitment to a Critique of Kant’s Ethics
 7 Summary

Part II A Critique of Kant’s Ethics

Introduction to Part II

5 Kant’s Contradiction in Conception Test
 1 The Basic Features of the Causal-Teleological Version of LCI
 2 Further Features of a Causal-Teleological Version of LCI
 3 The Suicide Maxim
 4 The False Promising Maxim
 5 Summary

6 Kant’s Contradiction in the Will Test
 1 Assessment Criteria
 2 Assessing the Existing Interpretations
 3 The Extravagant Imperfect Nature Interpretation
 4 Formulating the Groundwork’s Two Maxims
 5 The Maxim of Neglecting Natural Gifts
 6 The Maxim of Refusing to Help
 7 Summary

7 The Principle of Suitability Interpretation of Kant’s Formula of the Law of Nature
 1 The Contradiction in Conception Test
 2 The Contradiction in the Will Test

8 Kant’s Argument for the Formula of the End in Itself
 1 The Structure of Kant’s Argument for FEI
 2 Steps 1–3
 3 Step 4: the Logical Pluralism Version of Kant’s Regressive Argument
 4 Advantages of the Logical Pluralism Version of Kant’s Regressive Argument
 5 Humanity, Personality and a Belief in the Existence of God

9 Kant’s Arguments for a Belief in the Existence of God
 1 Kant’s Concept of the Highest Good
 2 The Argument from the Highest Good
 3 Wood’s Version of the Argument from the Highest Good
 4 The Objection from Moral Happiness
 5 The Physicoteleological Argument
 6 Conclusion

Part III Founding a Post-Kantian Ethics

Introduction to Part III

10 A Marxist Argument for Autonomy
 1 Relativising Practical Reason
 2 An Argumentative Strategy
 3 The Need for a Duty to the Whole
 4 The General Features of a Foundational Argument
 5 A Lesson from Mill’s ‘Proof’
 6 The Distinctive Features of a Marxist Foundational Argument
 7 A Simple Account of Capitalism’s Basic Structure
 8 Explaining the Premises
 9 The Rights-Antinomy
 10 Resolving the Rights-Antinomy
 11 The System Universalisability Principle of Justice
 12 The Autonomy of a Human Community
 13 Summary
 14 The Justification of Socialist Strategy
 15 Conclusion

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