Kierkegaard's Views on Normative Ethics, Moral Agency, and Metaethics

In Jon Stewart (ed.), A Companion to Kierkegaard. Oxford, UK: Blackwell. pp. 111–125 (2015)
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This chapter deals with Kierkegaard's contributions to ethics by focusing on his relation to virtue ethics and deontology, his views of moral agency, and the source of moral obligations. It argues that Kierkegaard presents a critique of Kantian autonomy that favors moral realism and theological voluntarism, and that he gives an account of human agency and selfhood in which morality is inescapable.

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Understanding Moral Obligation: Kant, Hegel, Kierkegaard.Robert Stern - 2011 - New York: Cambridge University Press.

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