Beyond Duty

Thomas E. Hill, Jr. is Kenan Distinguished Professor Emeritus at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He earned his B.A. (1959) and Ph.D. (1966) at Harvard, and a B.Phil. (1961) from Oxford. He has been a Rhodes Scholar and Danforth Fellow, and has taught at Johns Hopkins University, Pomona College, UCLA, and UNC Chapel Hill, and was also Visiting Professor at Stanford and the University of Minnesota. He is the author of Autonomy and Self-Respect (1991), Dignity and Practical Reason in Kant's Moral Theory (1992), Respect, Pluralism, and Justice (2000), Human Welfare and Moral Worth (2002), and Virtue Rules and Justice (2012). He also co-edited Kant's Groundwork (2002) and edited A Blackwell Guide to Kant's Ethics (2009).

• IntroductionPart I: Kant and Kantian Perspectives1: The Groundwork2: Kant on Imperfect Duties to Oneself3: Kantian Autonomy and Contemporary Ideas of Autonomy4: Rüdiger Bittner on Autonomy5: Kantian Perspectives on the Rational Basis of Human Dignity6: In Defense of Human Dignity7: The Kingdom of Ends as an Ideal and Constraint on Legislation8: Kantian Ethics and Utopian Thinking9: Varieties of ConstructivismPart Ii: Practical Ethics10: Human Dignity and Tragic Choices11: Duties and Choices in Philanthropic Giving: A Kantian Perspective12: Killing Ourselves13: Conscientious Conviction and Conscience14: Stability, A Sense of Justice, and Self-Respect15: Two Conceptions of Virtue16: Beyond Respect and Beneficence: An Ideal of Appreciation17: Ideals of Appreciation and Expressions of Respect

The applications of Hill's view in the second half of the book offer a rich exploration of ethical problems in Kantian terms that moves (as the title indicates) beyond duty and into the realm of virtue and human dignity.