A Radical Perfectionist: Revisiting Cavell in the Light of Kant

Journal of Aesthetic Education 48 (3):87-98 (2014)
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Stanley Cavell is widely regarded as a major philosophical figure, and he is generally recognized to have devoted a great deal of his writing to ethical themes. Nevertheless, it is not an exaggeration to say that his work has not for the most part been received within Anglo-American analytic ethics. There is an impressively large body of commentary on Cavell’s contribution to moral philosophy, but most of it gets generated and discussed outside analytic circles. Paul Guyer’s remarks here on the major strand of Cavell’s ethical thought that Cavell places under the heading of “moral perfectionism” are for this reason very welcome.1 Guyer’s main thesis is that Cavell’s perfectionist posture is more Kantian than..

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Examples of Perfectionism.Paul Guyer - 2014 - Journal of Aesthetic Education 48 (3):5-27.

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