{"id":18260,"date":"2023-05-02T02:18:34","date_gmt":"2023-05-02T02:18:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/questions\/philosophy-kant-lermontov-kierkegaard-john-stuart-mill-on-human-autonomy-and-authenticity\/"},"modified":"2023-05-02T02:18:34","modified_gmt":"2023-05-02T02:18:34","slug":"philosophy-kant-lermontov-kierkegaard-john-stuart-mill-on-human-autonomy-and-authenticity","status":"publish","type":"questions","link":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/questions\/philosophy-kant-lermontov-kierkegaard-john-stuart-mill-on-human-autonomy-and-authenticity\/","title":{"rendered":"Philosophy : Kant, Lermontov, Kierkegaard, John Stuart Mill on Human autonomy and authenticity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>*** Please use direct quote from :<\/p>\n<div>&nbsp;Kant &#8220;groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals,&#8221; (Preface, Section I &#8211; III)&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div>Lermontov &#8220;A Hero of Our Time&#8221; (Part I, II)<\/div>\n<div>Kierkegaard &#8220;Fear and Trembling&#8221; (preface, Attunment and Speech, Preamble of the Heart, Problema I, Epilogue)<\/div>\n<div>John Stuart Mill &#8220;On liberty&#8221; (I-III)<\/div>\n<div>* I can provide kindle account if you need *<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Here is the prompt:<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>After Kant\u2019s dramatic focus on persons as \u201cends-in-themselves\u201d who must avoid treating either<br \/>\nthemselves or other persons \u201cmerely as means,\u201d the question of personal autonomy and authenticity<br \/>\narises as a key concern. Whereas Kant seems to imply that personal autonomy is best expressed by a<br \/>\nperson\u2019s active engagement in the collective project of building a \u201ckingdom of ends,\u201d Lermontov and<br \/>\nKierkegaard emphasize the difficult challenge of cultivating personal authenticity by resisting the<br \/>\ntemptation of following the crowd. Mill, in turn, attempts to frame some kind of new compromise<br \/>\nbetween personal autonomy and community. Does he succeed? Your task is to select key passages from<br \/>\nall four authors and carefully discuss them in order to show your reader what\u2019s at stake in each case.<br \/>\nHow does Kant motivate us to embrace our duty? What new Romantic methods, in contrast, do<br \/>\nLermontov and Kierkegaard use to probe the depths of human psychology? What, in your view, is Mill\u2019s<br \/>\nbest, or weakest, argument? Finally, you must weigh in: does any of these four representative authors<br \/>\nhave an important lesson regarding personhood? Or should we pick and choose from their texts and<br \/>\nattempt a composite lesson in order to move forward?<\/p>\n<p>The paper must not exceed five pages, double-spaced and with standard margins. It must be turned in<br \/>\nto me in class on Thursday, April 27.<br \/>\nTips:<br \/>\n1. A short introduction works best.<br \/>\n2. Keep a distance towards the class: avoid writing things like \u201cmy favorite author so far\u201d or \u201cthe<br \/>\nfour authors we have read\u201d.<br \/>\n3. Check the titles carefully. For example, Mill did not write a book with the title \u201cOn Liberty,<br \/>\nUtilitarianism and Other Essays.\u201d He wrote \u201cOn Liberty\u201d and \u201cUtilitarianism.\u201d<br \/>\n4. Footnotes: you only need to list the full editorial information the first time that you cite a work.<br \/>\nAfter that, author, title and page number suffice.<br \/>\n5. Read yourself over carefully to check for typos and weird things that autocorrect does\u2026<\/div>\n<div><\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>*** Please use direct quote from : &nbsp;Kant &#8220;groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals,&#8221; (Preface, Section I &#8211; III)&nbsp; Lermontov &#8220;A Hero of Our Time&#8221; (Part I, II) Kierkegaard &#8220;Fear and Trembling&#8221; (preface, Attunment and Speech, Preamble of the Heart, Problema I, Epilogue) John Stuart Mill &#8220;On liberty&#8221; (I-III) * I can provide kindle account [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"disciplines":[702],"paper_types":[],"tagged":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/questions\/18260"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/questions"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/questions"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18260"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/questions\/18260\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18260"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"disciplines","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/disciplines?post=18260"},{"taxonomy":"paper_types","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/paper_types?post=18260"},{"taxonomy":"tagged","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tagged?post=18260"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}