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Immanuel Kant was a German Enlightenment philosopher.
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Singer and Basing Utilitarianism on Pure Reason?
In the conclusion to his 2005 paper "Ethics and Intuitions", Peter Singer directly references Kant's approach of basing morality on pure reason as a potential way to avoid moral skepticism, ...
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Does trying to work in base ω illuminate why Kant judged arithmetic to be synthetic?
Kant says that his thesis is more evident when it comes to addition of larger numbers than, say, 0 + 0 = 0, or then his go-to case of 7 + 5 = 12. In Hamkins' book on the philosophy of mathematics, he ...
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How does the category of necessity apply to causality (in Kant)?
At first I was vexed by Kant's statement about necessity being when possibility yields actuality. I get the idea of it, but it seems to depend on an advanced-modalizing claim that whatever is possible ...
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Can this metaphor about walking describe what Kant means in his Critique of Pure Reason? [closed]
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I am well aware that:
Reducing the Critique of Pure Reason to these conclusions is an oversimplification.
Metaphors, analogies, and parables are often silly or even misleading, and much of ...
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Sequence of read along commentaries and primary sources? Especially Kant
I am reading Kant's Critique and enjoying it so far. I have also Kemp Smith's Commentary, which is also very well done. But I'm struggling to know what is the order. Kant first makes me struggle and ...
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Kant a priori intuitions and categories - the structuring tool of of our experience - are phenomenal, noumenal, or something else?
How did Kant justify his knowledge of the a priori, of the intutions? I heavily doubt they can be phenomenal; thus, they should be noumenal. But if they are noumenal, and the noumenon is inaccessible, ...
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Does "radically evil by nature" follow from Kant's quasi-compatibilism?
In the first Critique, when he deals with the Third Antinomy, Kant appears to advance a sort of quasi-compatibilism where human actions in experience are strictly ordered by causality, but their ...
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Why is Kant’s and Locke’s racial thought often given less ethical scrutiny than Heidegger’s Nazism in philosophical discourse?
Immanuel Kant’s writings include racial hierarchies (e.g., Anthropology, 7:213), and John Locke's Fundamental Constitutions explicitly uphold slavery. Yet in philosophical discussions, their ethical ...
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Is my summary of Kant's notion of the categories correct?
I'm trying to get a basic grasp of Kant's project that he's undertaking in the Critique of Pure Reason and the Prolegomena. I'm not by any means aiming for a grad/professional level of understanding, ...
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Confusion about Allison's argument regarding Kant's claim of the syntheticity of an expression of the synthetic principle
In the Critique of Pure Reason, Kant once expressed his synthetic principle in such a manner:
"The synthetic proposition, that every different empirical consciousness must be combined into a ...
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If Kantian radical evil is universal (for human beings), why isn't the maxim of inverted priorities universalizable without contradiction?
In the Religion, Kant declares that inverting the priority of duty/virtue over happiness is radically evil. Now sometimes he mentions imperatives like, "Act according to the truth," and, &...
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If the three primary formulations of the categorical imperative are successive refinements (per Allen Wood), why doesn't Kant mention this later?
If there is an ordering to the UL (universal law), H (humanity), and LO (law unto oneself) formulae, such that UL < H < LO, then wouldn't Kant have thought, in the Religion, that putting the ...
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What would be a (neo-)Aristotelian but also (neo-)Kantian position on patience vs. cowardice in relation to sabotage/rebellion against the state?
By "neo-Aristotelian" I mean mainly Aquinas' point of view, but also in a way Kant's (to the extent that Kant partly continued, or did not entirely repudiate, Aristotle's ethics). I know ...
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Are there arbitrarily/too many ways to formulate the categorical imperative?
If I remember correctly (and so correct me if I'm wrong!), but Kant says somewhere that the various formulations of the categorical imperative (CI) are approximations of a perfect but singular ...
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How does transcendental philosophy solve the problem of objective validity?
I can't seem to grasp how transcendental philosophers like Kant or Husserl (or even Descartes) can claim objectivity for their claims? It seems to me as a broader problem (of knowledge) of other minds....
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Why are Kant’s views on space and time considered profound in philosophy when they were never shown to be correct? [closed]
According to Immanuel Kant, space and time are not objective realities, but rather "forms of intuition" that are inherent to our minds, meaning they are necessary preconditions for us to ...
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Is "Gewißheit" (certainty or so) accessible to everyone according to Kant?
So during an argument about the spirit of the enlightenment era, which massively influenced modern science, if I'm not mistaken, I was arguing with someone else about the following key question:
Is it ...
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Moral laws are by definiton how one ought to behave. How can it have no empirical part?
I am beginning to read Groundwork to the Metaphysic of Morals where Kant sets out on removing everything empirical from moral philosophy and thus arrive at the fundamental principle governing it, ...
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Hegel vs Kant - meaning of "transcendent"
For Kant, the "transcendent", is that which lies beyond what our
faculty of knowledge can legitimately know. Hegel's counter-argument
to Kant was that to know a boundary is also to be aware ...
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Are translations of Kant problematic because they lose conceptual precision?
How good are the translations of Kant in various languages? What are the experiences of those who have read Kant in languages other than German, but are native German speakers and have studied Kant ...
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Did Kant claim that there is a difference in perception between space and other phenomenal properties?
Bertrand Russell when talking about philosophical questions raised by Kant said,
Let us now try to consider the questions raised by Kant as regards space in a more general way. If we adopt the view, ...
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After Kant called God a "moral ideal", did any philosopher develop a theory of how God's World could possibly work?
Did any philosopher since Kant, go beyond simply believing in God, and actually developing a concept/theory of how our reality created by God can exist/develop/end?
"According to Immanuel Kant, ...
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Is Berkleian Idealism a Paralogism?
I've been trying to understand Kant's rejection of Berkleian idealism. In addition to his "Refutation of Idealism" in the Critique of Pure Reason, which seems to stress the importance of an ...
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What is wrong with trolling from a Kantian moral perspective? Can it be permissible in some circumstances?
It's somewhat clearer how trolling generally seems to involve disrespect of others' rational nature. But how does trolling harm one's own rational nature (if it does), from a Kantian perspective? Is ...
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Is it important "whether concepts are defined logically or empirically" for a priori or posteriori?
I'm confused whether concepts are defined logically or empirically in order to determine if a proposition is a priori or a posteriori.
Apple is a fruit.
The sun radiates heat.
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