Kant famously insisted that “the idea of the will of every rational being as a universally legislative will” is the supreme principle of morality. Recent interpreters have taken this emphasis on the self-legislation of the moral law as evidence that Kant endorsed a distinctively constructivist conception of morality according to which the moral law is a positive law, created by us. But a closer...

Chapter 1: Beginning with the Metaphysics of Morals’ systematic portrayal of reason’s universally legislative role with respect to duties of right and duties of virtue, I explain why Kant requires the concept of an end that is also a duty if the distinction that he draws between juridical and ethical lawgiving is to ground the basic architectonic setup of his overall doctrine of morals, i.e., i...

Our assumption is that the remarks made by Kant about “utility” of travel in preface Anthropology from a Pragmatic Point View fall within context modern theories, which find their point completion at end Eighteenth century. According to common sense, travelling abroad has indeed become privileged means any anthropological project; nevertheless, regards this practice useless for his own work: pa...

Most German philosophers in the early nineteenth century were devoted, to the idealistic « completion » of Immanuel Kant's critical philosophy. A few independent philosophers, however , were preoccupied with the elaboration of a non-idealistic, and less speculative, conclusion to Kant's thought. Among the earliest opponents of the speculativ~ idealists was Jakob Frie-d~ich Fries (1773-1843), a ...

Editor’s Message In his Critique of Pure Reason (1929, Palg rave; http://www.arts.cuhk.edu.hk/ Philosophy/Kant/cpr), Immanuel Kant showe d how it can be that all our knowledge begins with experience, yet in order to mak e sense of those experiences we must know other things first. He focused especi ally on the fact that we frame experiences in space and time but cannot deriv e the ideas of spac...

Kant is well known for his restrictive conception of proper science. In the present paper I will try to explain why Kant adopted this conception. I will identify three core conditions which Kant thinks a proper science must satisfy: systematicity, objective grounding, and apodictic certainty. These conditions conform to conditions codified in the Classical Model of Science. Kant’s infamous clai...

aestheticians and moralphilosophers alike are inclined to the view that there is no particular!j beneficial effect on moral life ofa developed aesthetic sensibility. the usual supporting witness is the pitiless nazi ss officer with a refined tastefor mozart and torture. but though his testimony can hard!j be gainsaid, there is an unnoticed and unwarranted narro1ving of the scope ofaesthetic sen...