Paul Guyer, Kant on the Rationality of Morality

Kant on the Rationality of Moral Judgment

kant on the rationality of moral judgment

the paper deals with kant's conception of moral judgment. i start by criticizing a dominant interpretation of kant's practical rationality in its assertion that choosing, i.e. exercising judgment consists in adopting a maxim; and adopting a maxim is equivalent to acting on a principle, giving oneself the moral law (korsgaard). according to this view, the logical inescapability of choo...

Morality, Rationality and Impartiality

Morality as somehow involving rationality and impartiality received classic expression in philosophy of Kant who frankly speaks of “rational and impartial spectator” in contemplating the universal law. The overall aim of this paper is to show (1) that the idea of morality implies rationality and this will be reached at in refuting the moral scepticism; but (2) it does not necessarily indicates ...

Kant , Kuhn , and the Rationality of Science

†Send requests for reprints to the author, Department of History and Philosophy of Science, Goodbody Hall 130, Indiana University, 1011 East Third Street, Bloomington, IN 47405–7005; e-mail: [email protected]. *This paper first appeared in Michael Heidelberger and Friedrich Stadler (eds.) History of Philosophy of Science: New Trends and Perspectives (Dordrecht: Kluwer, 2002) Kluwer Academic ...

Lessons from Kant: On Knowledge, Morality, and Beauty

Kant’s work contains numerous inspiring ideas regarding knowledge, morality, and beauty, and I will attempt to present some of them in this short essay. Following are very brief summaries of the main lessons that I suggest to take home. Knowledge is a synthesis of concepts and sensory data; it is never obtained by sheer accumulation of data (or facts); it is obtained by the organization of mean...