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This chapter explores Marx's transcendence of morality by considering an aspect of his distinction between essence and appearance. It claims that there is no ongoing contradiction between science and ethics in Marx's thought, as the contradiction theorists argue. Keywords: Karl Marx, ethics, morality, freedom, equality, justice, capitalism ...
Feb 25, 2011 · However, in ethics, it is much more acceptable to reject realism, and to adopt a more anti-realist position of some sort at the outset (cf. Rähme 2017); as a result, the most that will be called for is a modest transcendental argument which is not world-directed, as many ethicists do not want to treat moral values and norms as part of the ...
Jan 1, 2011 · A straightforward description of transcendental for Wittgenstein is something that transcends the limits of language, which goes beyond the boundaries of language, which cannot be said. Ethics, being in the realm of the unsayable, is on the other side of the limit. Therefore, ethics is transcendental.
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Feb 23, 2004 · Kant’s Moral Philosophy. First published Mon Feb 23, 2004; substantive revision Fri Jan 21, 2022. Immanuel Kant (1724–1804) argued that the supreme principle of morality is a principle of practical rationality that he dubbed the “Categorical Imperative” (CI). Kant characterized the CI as an objective, rationally necessary and ...
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Abstract. This article explores Immanuel Kant’s transcendental argument in philosophy. According to Kant, a transcendental argument begins with a compelling first premise about our thought, experience, knowledge, or practice, and then reasons to a conclusion that is a substantive and unobvious presupposition and necessary condition of the ...
on the one hand to the primacy of ethics to ontology, of ethical lives and action to existence and being, and on the other to the connection between ethics and transcendence, i.e., absolute otherness or separation. 2Emmanuel Levinas, “Meaning and Sense,” in Emmanuel Levinas: Basic Philosoph - ical Writings, 58. Levinas’s project can thus ...
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Apr 17, 2002 · The topic of this entry is not—at least directly—moral theory; rather, it is the definition of morality. Moral theories are large and complex things; definitions are not. The question of the definition of morality is the question of identifying the target of moral theorizing. Identifying this target enables us to see different moral ...
