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2 days ago · In the Kritik der praktischen Vernunft (1788; Critique of Practical Reason), Immanuel Kant took stock of the history of moral thought and meditated on the distinction, central to all ethical thought since Aristotle’s Nichomachean Ethics, between two kinds of goodness: das Gute, as the virtuous, and das Wohl, as the happy, which is merely ...
4 days ago · First, we can look at the place that the regulative ideas of reason occupy in Kant’s epistemology in order to illuminate their role in moral, juridical, and political practice. In ‘Transcendental Dialectic’ (Critique of Pure Reason), Footnote 3 Kant defines the term ‘idea’ as follows: ‘The concept is either an empirical or a pure ...
pp 61 - 93 (Practical Philosophy through Cambridge) pp 4:406 - 4:445 Week 4: Section 3: Transition from metaphysics of morals to the critique of pure practical reason pp 94 - 108 (Practical Philosophy through Cambridge) pp 4:446 - 4:463 Sign up for the first meeting on Wednesday May 29, 2024 here (link). The video conferencing link will be ...
3 days ago · In the introduction to their edited collection, Critique and Postcritique, Anker and Felski astutely begin their remarks with the following reflection: “It would have been hard to imagine, only a few years ago, that the idea of postcritique would be gaining significant traction…in the midst of a recalibration of thought and practice whose consequences are difficult to predict” (2017: 1).
3 days ago · Some philosophers, drawing upon Immanuel Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason, have questioned the nature and limits of reason.By contrast, human reason plays a central role in libertarian thought. In ...
5 days ago · Understanding Reason Is Paramount to Understanding Liberty. Some philosophers, drawing upon Immanuel Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason, have questioned the nature and limits of reason. By contrast, human reason plays a central role in libertarian thought. In the ordinary dictionary sense, human reason means simply “the ability of a healthy ...
3 days ago · In his Critique of Pure Reason, Immanuel Kant a prominent philosopher who was known for his contributions to epistemology and metaphysics, posits that the idea of transcendental idealism, suggests that our knowledge is a result of the interaction between our perceptions and the underlying structures of the mind. This is true.
