Cover -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Preface -- Note on Sources and Key to Abbreviations -- Introduction: Why Kant Now -- Part I: Applying Kant's Ethics -- 1 Animal Suffering and Moral Character -- Kant's Logocentrism -- Kant's Justification for Our Duties (with Regard) to Nonrational Animals -- Implications of Kant's View for Our Treatment of Animals -- Kantians Revising Kant: Wood and Korsgaard -- Problems with Wood and Korsgaard -- Kant's Response to Wolff: The Difference between Animal Choice and Moral Agency -- Evaluating Pain and Pleasure -- Kant's Practical Appeal -- Final Thoughts for the Nonanthropocentrist -- 2 Kant's Strategic Importance for Environmental Ethics -- Natural Purposiveness in the Critique of Judgment -- Furthering Nature's Purposes: The Stewardship Model -- The Value of Nature for Humanity -- Considering Future Generations -- Beauty as a Symbol of Morality -- Preserving the Sublime -- Developing Kantian Virtues -- Norton's Convergence Hypothesis and Light's Practical Pluralism -- The Appeal to Common Sense -- Kant's Place in the Debate over Environmental Policy -- 3 Moral and Legal Arguments for Universal Health Care -- The Moral Duty to Assist Others in Their Health Care -- Health Care Should Be Provided by the Government -- The Duty to Provide Truly Universal Health Care -- Rejecting the Liberal Model -- 4 The Scope of Patient Autonomy -- Physician-Assisted Suicide -- Refusing Life-Saving Medical Treatment -- Organ Donation: Opt-in or Opt-out? -- Autonomy and the Body -- Part II: Kantian Arguments against Kant's Conclusions -- 5 Subjecting Ourselves to Capital Punishment -- The Difference between Morality and Legality -- Retribution and the Death Penalty -- Consenting to Capital Punishment -- Determining the "Inner Wickedness" of the Accused -- The Fallibility of Justice.

Capital Punishment Cannot Be Categorically Demanded of Us -- A Moral Assessment of the Supposed Duty to Kill -- Do These Objections Rule Out All Punishments? -- Whose Dignity Is at Stake? -- 6 Same-Sex Marriage as a Means to Mutual Respect -- Sex Is Morally Problematic -- Sex Is (Conditionally) Good -- Exchanging Ourselves: Marriage in the Moralphilosophie Collins -- Kant and Political Liberalism -- Transforming Ourselves into Husbands and Wives: Marriage in the Metaphysics of Morals -- Is Something Wrong Because It Is Unnatural? -- Pleasure as an End of Nature -- Marital Equality as a Criterion of Legitimacy -- How the Same-Sex Marriage Debate Should Proceed -- Part III: Limitations of Kant's Theory -- 7 Consent, Mail-Order Brides, and the Marriage Contract -- The Purpose of Marriage -- Consent and Coercion -- Mail-Order Marriages as the Kantian Ideal -- Treating Mail-Order Brides Merely as Means -- Attempts to Criticize Mail-Order Marriages from a Kantian Perspective -- Are Mail-Order Brides Coerced? -- Questioning the a priori Basis of Kant's Ethics -- Notes toward a Genealogy of Kantianism -- 8 Individual Maxims and Social Justice -- How Kant Answers Hegel's Formalism Charge -- Basic Principles versus Particular Duties: Kant and Rawls -- What Is My Obligation to Reduce Poverty? -- Social Contexts Specify the Content of Maxims -- Herman's Rules of Moral Salience -- The Humanity of Others Is Not Simply Given -- Developing Moral Judgment: The Case of Kant Himself -- The Return of Hegel -- 9 The Decomposition of the Corporate Body -- Decision-Making Procedures and Maxims in Corporate Settings -- The Need for Collective Responsibility in Business Ethics -- Applying the Categorical Imperative to Businesses -- Kant's Account of Moral Agency and the Categorical Imperative -- Must We Never Treat a Business Merely as a Means?.

Corporate Policies and Individual Agents -- Bowie's Defense of Collective Responsibility, and the Need for an Alternative -- Personal Responsibility within the Corporation -- The Choice Facing Business Ethicists: Kant or Collective Responsibility? -- 10 Becoming a Person -- The Ancient Practice of Abortion, and Continuing Controversies -- Universalized Maxims Are Not Retroactive -- The Formula of Humanity: Appealing to Personhood -- Thomson and Boonin: The Personhood of the Fetus Does Not Matter -- The Elements of Personhood: Self-Consciousness, Humanity, Responsibility -- An Attempt to Bring Fetuses into Kant's Moral Community: The Appeal to Kind -- Another Common Strategy: The Argument from Potential -- Do We Have Indirect Duties to Fetuses? -- No Fetuses, No Children -- The Need for a Pragmatic Concept of Personhood -- The Specter of Infanticide -- Kant's Appeal to God -- Problematic Implications of the Appeal to Personhood -- Our Kantian Heritage: Trouble with Those at the Margins of Personhood -- Conclusion:  Emerging from Kant's Long Shadow -- Bibliography -- Index -- Download CD/DVD content.