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Immanuel Kant was a German Enlightenment philosopher.
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Critical rationalism and Evolution
Lets assume I. Kant would have became aware of Darwins theory of Evolution after writing his "Kritik der reinen Vernunft". How could the knowledge have affected his idea about the "ursprünglich ...
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What did Kant say on the invention of new terms?
I remember I once read in Kant's "Kritik der Reinen Vernunft" about the tendency to come up with or invent new terms/words, about which he was quite "critical" (pun intended). I need the exact quote, ...
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Universality of aesthetic judgment in Kant
In the Critique of Judgement Kant tries to characterise the aesthetic judgement as (among others) universal, i.e as a judgement that we can demand others to have as well as us.
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Kant and Utilitarians vs War
A soldier is about to execute 20 prisoners. He tells you that if you kill one of them, he'll let the other 19 go. This classic standoff between Kantian ethics and utilitarianism is discussed @ "...
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Had Kant ever said anything about “Beauty is not on the rosy cheeks of a maiden”?
My "Introduction to Aesthetics" textbook (a cheap-looking book made by people of questionable credentials) claims that Immanuel Kant had said something to the effect of "Beauty doesn't lie on the rosy ...
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Aesthetically judging without concepts?
In the Second Moment of the Critique of Judgement, Kant writes about how the universality of the judgment of beauty is without concepts. I understand what he is doing here, but keep wondering whether ...
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Kant and the ornament
I am getting somewhat confused about Kant's stance about ornaments. In the Critique of Judgement, Kant seems to make a strict distinction between parergon (the add-ons to say cruely) and ergon (the ...
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Is ethics the primary purpose of Kant's philosophy?
My professor said that he believes the primary purpose behind Kant's Critique of Pure Reason is to respond to the empiricist view that morals are ultimately subjective.
He believes that the primary ...
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Does Kant think it's okay to lie to kids?
If Kant doesn't believe that kids are completely rational then would he say that it is okay to tell them a white lie?
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Kant and Theodicy
I am looking for some general overview on Immanuel Kant's theodicy.
I need resources, such as an SEP page, on the topic of Kant's theodicy.
[1] Did Kant discuss theodicy at all?
[2] What possible ...
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How does the phenomenon of moral luck pose a problem for Kantian ethical theories?
I was reading the paper "Moral luck" by Thomas Nagel which left me rather confused. In the paper, he describes four different kinds of moral luck:: constitutive luck, resultant luck, circumstantial ...
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Kant: 7 + 5 = 12 and concepts
I have already read several posts on this topic but I have some other questions.
According to Kant,
5 + 7 = 12
is synthetic a priori judgement. I want to know what the judgement really is. Is it ...
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How similar are Kantian Ethics to Virtue Ethics?
I am writing an essay for the question 'Critically evaluate the view that ethics should be more concerned with who you are than what you do'.
I have done some of Kant's ethics and some virtue ethics,...
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What would Kant do in this situation of a drowning child in the pond? [closed]
Suppose you see a drowning child in a pond and there is no one else around except you. You want to save the child, but you know you cannot swim. And there is no other means other than swimming in the ...
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Superiority of the concept as opposed to synthetic apperception
In The Foundations of Arithmetic (§ 48, p. 61), after maintaining that statements of numbers are indeed statements of fact, Frege asserts that:
The concept has a power of collecting together far ...
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Is globalization immoral? [closed]
My question pertains to when Morality becomes so defined and homogenous to the entire population if this isn’t immoral to the diversities that it umbrellas. In a world that now demands membership as ...
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Does a priori knowledge exist and can we prove objectivity through it?
My friend and I got into an argument around Kant's categorical imperative. Eventually, ignoring all of that rigmarole, he argued that a priori knowledge was subjective. Things like 4 > 3 don't have to ...
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Does it matter if we never achieve the results of our being good? [closed]
I mean "good" broadly speaking. That could mean anything. It seems like we are bombarded with people who live, at least overtly, moral lives but who are somehow fake. The word "result" reminds me of ...
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Schopenauer's critique of Kant: the distinction between knowledge of perception from abstract knowledge
I am reading "The World as Will and Representation" by Arthur Schopenhauer (Norman, J., Welchman, A., & Janaway, C. (Eds.). (2010). Schopenhauer: 'The World as Will and Representation'). In the ...
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Why did Hegel consider Kant's definition of marriage crude and shameful?
Why did Hegel* consider Kant's definition of marriage crude and shameful?
Kant** defines marriage as:
the union between two persons of opposite sex with a view to the lifelong reciprocal ...
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How does autonomy as defined by Kant relate to respect for others?
I understand what Autonomy means. However, I fail to understand how it maps on to respect for others.
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What is the relationship between Autonomy and Virtue for Kant?
I understand autonomy to me decisions made through reasons and Kant defines virtue as “the moral strength of a human being's will in fulfilling his duty”.
How is autonomy related to virtue?
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How is Kantian's Universality Formulation identical to his Humanity Formulation (Principle of Ends)?
Kant states that the humanity formulation was substantively identical with his first formulation of the categorical imperative (universal law of nature), but I do not see how he came to that ...
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Explain kant's conception of causality as an a priori category prescribed by the understanding to all possible objects of experience?
How does causality relate to the a priori and experience? I am having trouble connecting the dots. Any help would be great!
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Why does Russell's writing suggest that Kant was right about mathematics being synthetic a priori?
As I was reading "The problems of philosophy" by Bertrand Russell I got the impression that Kant was right and Hume was wrong in the case of a priori knowledge of synthetic mathematic nature and I'm ...
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In the Critique of Pure Reason, what is the difference between “schema” and “synthesis”?
I don't understand the difference between Schema and Synthesis. I have read the First Critique and I see Kant is using the words "schema" and "synthesis" as "intermediate" between intuitions and ...
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What exactly is Kant's argument for the universality of judgements of beauty?
Why am I allowed to demand that everyone agree with me when it comes to judgement of beauty?
I see two places in the critique where Kant answers this:
The first place is in section 6 (second moment)...
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First Critique Edition with both Akademie numbers and A/B numbers?
Most of the editions of the first Critique give the A/B numbers for the text, which is very useful. But some editions, especially the online edition of the Akademie edition of Kant use the Akademie ...
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Is it an issue to not have read major works when going into Philosophy graduate school (history of ideas)
I am currently doing an undergraduate degree in philosophy and I want to study history of ideas in graduate school. I'm planning to apply to programs in UK/Europe or history of ideas focused ...
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What did Kant think about The Doctrine of Philosophical Necessity?
In 1777, Joseph Priestley wrote a major philosophical work called The Doctrine of Philosophical Necessity, and according to Wikipedia:
Philosophical Necessity influenced the 19th-century ...
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Is it possible to make sense of reality that is independent 'our understanding'
Kant has a famous quote;
Thoughts without content are empty, intuitions without concepts are blind
This suggests we can't understand anything without (independently of) the use of concepts, which ...
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What (who) to read before reading Kant
I am going to be taking an undergraduate course with a prof who marks quite severely. She mentioned that the course expects a working knowledge of Early Modern Philosophy, and specifically to read the ...
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What good is it to ground morality?
What good is it to ground morality? It's a somewhat bad question. Philosophers like proving things. But, specifically, does it make me more moral if I can ground my moral values?
What generated the ...
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Categorical imperative defeating division of labor?
Suppose the following maxim.
Goal: satisfy basic needs: food, water, sleep, etc.
Method: having a specialization, getting money for work, spend money to satisfy basic needs.
Conditions: capitalism, ...
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Can “knowledge” only be synthetic according to Kant?
I have read secondary sources claiming that Kant conceives of knowledge as a strictly synthetic affair, and that analytic judgments are thus not knowledge. This is relatively consistent with what Kant ...
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Where did Kant say that “happiness is not an ideal of reason but of imagination”?
Can somebody tell me where this famous quote comes from?
I mean in which book and on which page. I want to find this in German. If someone can provide the quote in German the way Kant wrote it, I ...
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Would the opacity of everyday motivations seriously undermine Kantian CI?
Would the opacity of everyday motivations seriously undermine Kantian categorical imperative (CI)?
I tend not to use the CI when deciding what is moral, and partly because I'm not sure I know what my ...
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Account of Priori knowledge in Critique of Reason
As I understand, a priori statements are propositions that are conceived independently of one's experience.
However, the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy states that
The sensible world, or ...
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“Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics” - any future metaphysics except Kant's?
The title to one of Kant's most famous books is "Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics That Will Be Able to Present Itself as a Science", where he presents the outlines of his metaphysical theory ...
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Kant's tables, were they ever extended?
Were Kant's tables of judgements and categories ever extended beyond the 12 sub-classes by anyone?
Kant himself wrote the project would be easy so he didn't bother to extend to sub-sub-categories or -...
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Universalizability reductio ad absurdum
My 13-year-old son is attending philosophy camp and one of his homework assignments is to come up with some objections to Kantianism. In a previous conversations I suggested a ridiculous counter-...
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Are Hume's 'impressions' Kant's 'phenomena'?
Why do some philosophers like Carl Stumpf or Immanuel Kant use the word 'Phenomena', whereas British empiricist philosophers, like Locke and Hume, or even Kant, use the word 'Impressions'?
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How does Descartes' “cogito, ergo sum” affect Hume's experienced based epistemology and Kant's transcendental philosophy?
My attempts so far:
Descartes, being a rationalist, used "cogito, ergo sum" to lead to
the concept of innate ideas.
Hume, being a radical empiricist, believed in experience based
epistemology.
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Does Kant consider extendedness metaphysically (analytic) a priori?
In Kant's famous division between a priori vs a postriori, and synthetic vs analytic, Kant's example for a priori analytic proposition is:
All bodies are extended.
Without immediately delving ...
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The analytic a priori
Generally, the analytic a priori according to Kant is taken to be empty, tautological, unremarkable. The stock example is 'all bachelors are unmarried' or 'all triangles have three sides,' in other ...
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Is Kant's noumenon very small or very big?
I've not read any full chapters on Kant, and even less of his work. Am just familiar with the idea that, for Kant, things as they really are in themselves, noumenal reality, is unknowable. I was just ...
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The Moral Law and the Categorical Imperative in Kant
In the Groundwork for the Metaphysics of Morals, Kant begins his task by developing, through analysis of ordinary moral concepts, a theory of the 'supreme principle of morals,' the criteria for a ...
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Are propositions in mathematics synthetic or analytic?
I'm reading Kant's Critique of Pure Reason and I understand that he thought that "Mathematical Judgements are all synthetic". I would like to know where does this debate lies or if it is of interest ...
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What is the use of analytic propositions?
[Note: I'm using Kant's terms.]
Analytic proposition, for example "all bodies are extended", or "a=a", seems like an unhelpful type of proposition (contra to the synthetic a priori and a postriori ...
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Is Reality an intersection of Incompatible Ontologies?
Empiricists do not ask questions about the ontological status of mathematical or logical structures. Idealists don't explain how Ideas are developed, or how technological advancement in general takes ...
