In the opening pages of his 1966 Locke Lectures, Science and Metaphysics: Variations on Kantian Themes, Wilfrid Sellars alludes to what he takes to be the ambiguity or “Janus-faced” character of Kant’s notion of “intuition” as developed in the Critique of Pure Reason (Sellars, 1966, p. 2). Appealing first to the formal distinction between intuitions and concepts, he notes that in Kant’s taxonom...

First-Degree Würde: A Means to What End?! An Examination of Human Dignity and Moral Status in Kantian Ethics and Utilitarianism! ! Kantian Ethics! ! In Chapter 10 of his famous book Leviathan, philosopher Thomas Hobbes writes on the topic of the worth of a person. He writes, “The ‘value,’ or ‘worth,’ of a man is, as of all other things, his price; that is to say, so much as would be given for t...

Abstract Within Kant scholarship, there is an entrenched tendency to distinguish, on Kant’s behalf, between pure and ‘schematized’ categories. There also a widespread view the schematized categories as conceptually richer than I argue that this reading of distinction, which call standard view, should be rejected. In its place, draw neglected part theory marks – namely, his account ‘synthetic at...

In his famous discussion of the source of our duties concerning anirrals, the German philosopher Immanuel Kant approvingly mentions a series of engravings ( "The Four Stages of Cruelty") by the English artist William Hogarth as exemplifying one of his central contentions. [2] The approach to our duties regarding anirrals advocated by Kant holds that avoiding cruelty is the most fUndamental duty...

| In epistemological discussions, two doctrines oppose each other: that of a priori knowledge, and that of exclusive empiricism. The a priori view is characterized by the claim that we possess knowledge about nature that is originally contained in reason but comes to actuality only through sensory stimulation. This knowledge, when brought to full consciousness, can be expressed in the form of g...