O presente artigo tem como objetivo apresentar o ponto central da crítica de Max Scheler à moral kantiana e confrontar seus argumentos com próprio texto Kant. Para tanto, seguiremos fio condutor as considerações sobre relações estabelecidas por Kant entre a priori formal conforme apresentadas em Der Formalismus in der Ethik und die Materiale Wertethik, assim sua defesa existência um não-formal....

| The doctrines of knowledge a priori and of exclusive empirism [ausschließender Empirismus] oppose each other in the epistemological discussion. The a priori view is characterized by the claim that we are in possession of certain pieces of knowledge, being originally contained in reason although coming to actuality only through stimulation by sensation, that can be expressed in the form of gen...

1. Introduction Kant claims that human cognition involves the peculiar ability to " think the particular as contained under the universal. " We generalize: we abstract, classify, or conceptualize; we think of particular individual things as belonging to general kinds: this is a bird, that a tree. We form concepts into systematic hierarchies: grizzlies and polar bears are kinds of bear; bears an...

Moralistic and didactic texts make up a large part of Persian literature. Undoubtedly, if "the inculcation of a particular concept into the mind of the reader and the attempt to persuade and conquer his mind" is not the main purpose of these texts, it is definitely one of their most important goals. In this sense, the poet or writer of such texts tries to persuade the reader and sway his mind t...

By taking into accountsome texts publishedbetweenthe first and the second edition of the Critique of Pure Reason that have been neglected by most of those who have dealt with the deductionof the categories, I argue that the core of the deduction is to be identified as the ‘almost single inference from the precisely determineddefinition of a judgment in general’, which Kant adumbrates in the Met...

In this paper I’m going to argue that both, Spinoza and Kant, construct the argument “for the impossibility of self-destruction” and examine how the concept of suicide relates to the concept of humanity in both philosophers. I will argue that Kant’s and Spinoza’s argument for the impossibility of self-destruction follows from the “external cause” premise and not from “the same subject” premise....

Much has been written about Kant’s misogyny. His remarks the “ Geschlechtscharaktere” (features of sexes) have interpreted as evidence his negative attitude towards women. Most these comments on “women’s nature” overlook fact that Kant used term “nature” differently, depending focus each writing. Such a might be empirical, transcendental or pragmatic. In fact, described “masculine” and “feminin...

KANT’S VIEWS ON CAUSALITY have received an extraordinary amount of scholarly attention, especially in comparison with Hume’s position. For Hume presents powerful skeptical arguments concerning causality, yet Kant claims to have an adequate response to them. Since it turns out to be far from obvious what even the main lines of Kant’s response are, scholars have felt the need to clarify his posit...

the paper discusses study of kant's deontological ethics in organization and comparison of it with pillars of worldly ethic in organization and whether kant's ethics is compatible with them. kant's ethics is one of the most deontological theories in which intention and motive of action are basic roles. kant merely regarded the motive of action of moral rules, respect to them. kan...