Questions tagged [kant]
Immanuel Kant was a German Enlightenment philosopher.
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What are the advantages and disadvantages of having the name/category 'Kantian ethics' [closed]
I gather that the term 'Kantian ethics' is meant to refer to one of a small number of broad clusters of ethical views that enjoys currency in contemporary (western) philosophy. I'm wondering if people ...
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Kant and categorical imperative
I'm struggling to understand Kant's categorical imperative.
Kant call behaviour which is in accordance with the categorical imperative moral and the rest is immoral according to him.
Okay. I get that.
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What is the basis for Kant's misquote “If the truth shall kill them, let them die”?
I recently discovered that the quote "If the truth shall kill them, let them die" is falsely attributed to Kant, and actually stems from Ayn Rand paraphrasing Kant [1] [2]
Which work/passage could ...
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Kant, combinatorics and the supreme principle of synthetic judments : on a possible analogy
One striking thing in combinatorics is that , in order to count the number of objets having a given property, we make a " detour " and count instead the total number of possible ways to produce or ...
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Kant and putting your own interests first
Is it ethically justifiable to place your own interests first if we lived by Kant?
Say someone asks you to help them move houses, help them study, etc. So something that isnt life threatening but ...
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What are transcendental arguments logically, and are moral arguments for God of this kind?
SEP has this to say on transcendental arguments: "As standardly conceived, transcendental arguments are taken to be distinctive in involving a certain sort of claim, namely that X is a necessary ...
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How does Kant's claim of discovering the 'structures of human knowledge', escape the same dogmatic accusations which he leveled?
Immanuel Kant was a genius and wrote eloquently on many topics. His original thinking set the tone for much that has followed and continues today to exert great influence. Notwithstanding all of this, ...
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How does Kant's transcendental idealism account for things that are known to exist, but cannot be experienced?
I've been trying to explain Kant's transcendental idealism to a friend of mine. By transcendental idealism I am referring to a world of appearances which receive their character from the point of view ...
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Kant tells us that necessity is an indication of a priori concepts
It is easy enough to grasp that necessity does not inhere in nature but it is more difficult to explain. Is there a clearer explanation?
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Secondary Work on Kant's Critique of Pure Reason
I'm currently reading through the Critique of Pure Reason for the first time and have on hand a book by Martin Heidegger titled, "Phenomenological Interpretations of Kant's Critique of Pure Reason." I ...
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Sartre's “The transcendence of the ego”
In this text there are parts of Kant that Sartre refers to that I don't think I fully understand.
What parts of Kant would I have to refer to to understand where Sartre is coming from?
He refers to ...
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Does Kant's concept of 'representations' advocate for any agency as a function of the mind?
Kant never seems to define his usage of the concept of 'representations'. Nevertheless it appears to play a central role in his depiction of the mind's cognitive capability. When he says that 'that ...
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An attempt at reconstructing the reasoning behind Kant's universalization principle
Please let me know whether you detect objectionable points in my attempt at reconstructing Kant's universalization principle.
Reference : Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals.
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According to Kant's Universalizability principle, may I say LGBT is morally impermissible?
Kant's universalizability principle (theory), which he set out in 18th century, tells us that if a course of action cannot be universally adopted it must be morally impermissible. So in that case ...
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Kant's views on using corpses as means
Kant says that we should treat sentient beings as ends in themselves.
Dead human beings are not sentient.
So, what would be his view on treating corpses as means, to be used by medical students, for ...
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Kant : we cannot ask “why” for moral laws?
As I understand, Kant says moral laws are liberty so there is not any "condition" for it.
But it's very dangerous for me because that's to say human must act according to something we cannot ask for ...
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Synthetic a priori judgments and Hinge Propositions
Is anyone aware of any books or articles that explicitly discuss the relationship between Kant’s notion of the Synthetic a Priori [judgment], e.g. “every color is extended,” "Nothing can be ...
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Kant, Idealism and Evolution
I'm certain this question must have been asked many times before, but I could not find an answer searching the archived posts here. So please excuse me as I am new to this forum and might have posted ...
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What are synthetic a priori jugements in Metaphysics?
I understand well what are synthetic a priori jugements and what are maths / sciences synthetic a priori jugements. But I want to know examples of philosophical (metaphysical) synthetic a priori ...
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A Kantian Platonist view of mathematics
So my question, essentially, is this: is there any reasonable way in which one can say that mathematical Platonism is compatible with Kantian constructivism?
For the sake of context, I was asked to ...
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25 years of philosophy precisely the ones between Kant and Hegel, philosophy of freedom?
Why were THE 25 years of philosophy precisely the ones between Kant and Hegel, per Dieter Henrich and older writings on them?
And what does this have to do with Kant and Hegel being first and ...
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Is the proposition “I feel happy” analytic or synthetic?
If we consider the statement to be true, assumedly the predicate "happy" is contained within the subject "I", and would therefore be analytic.
Would this also make all subjective statements analytic?
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Is Kant's transcendental logic a kind of erotetic logic?
In the first Critique, Kant presents a "problematical" concept of the ideation of reason, e.g. he talks about a focus imaginarium or something at one point. And his discourse on noumena as not "...
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Is Kant committing the reflection fallacy? ( Kant's epistemology)
(1) I see a tree.
(2) Therefore the tree is the object of my perception.
(3) So I see the object of my perception.
(4) Hence, without grasping the concept of object in general and subsuming the ...
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How would Hume reply to Kant saying there are synthetic a priori propositions?
In my intro to philosophy class, our teacher presented us with "Kant's revolutionary thesis":
There are synthetic a priori propositions. They must be [necessarily are] true without appealing to ...
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Is Deleuze saying that the “virtual” generates beauty and lies outside affect?
This article says
All this is most fully worked out in Difference and
Repetition(1994). What Deleuze calls the virtual is the there posed as
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Have Kant, Hegel or Fichte. etc. talked about hallucination or illusion?
How do Kant (a Constructivist), idealists such as Hegel, or subjectivists like Fichte deal with hallucination or illusion, given that it appears to show their beliefs about the world are uncertain?
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Why does Kant say that some imperatives are analytically justified?
In the Groundwork and the second Critique, IIRC, Kant for some reason tries to explain the "argument" for the categorical imperative as synthetic a priori. He does this not just for assertoric forms ...
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KANT “Rational beings exist as an end in themselves, and never merely as a means to an end”
What does Kant mean when he says rational beings exist as an end in themselves, and never merely as a means to an end?
Immanuel Kant - From Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
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Understanding Kant vs. Hume for a non-philosopher
I am trying to self-study a bit of philosophy. I am an applied mathematician by trade, and am therefore drawn to Kant's work on the limits of human knowledge, in particular his exchange with Hume. I ...
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Are ideas in the prolegomena meant to be the failure of understanding?
In the third section of the Prolegomena, Kant explains in section 40 (at least how I understand it) that ideas are merely the analogues categories of those concepts that cannot be experienced. As I ...
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Is my understanding of Kant's arguments for the categories correct?
So from what I understand from my reading of the Critique of Pure Reason, specifically in the Transcendental Deduction, is that Kant states that in order to have a unified self-conscious (a unified "I"...
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Why did Kant condemn masturbation?
That such an unnatural use (and so misuse) of one's sexual attributes
is a violation of one's duty to himself and is certainly in the
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Kant's Notion of Synthetic A Prioiri as Logical Entailment
Is there something wrong about interpreting Kant's notion of synthetic a priori statements to be logical entailments?
I understand, I think, that Kant didn't want to say such statements (e.g math ...
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The idealism of Kant and Berkeley [closed]
What are the key differences between Kant's idealism and Berkeley's idealism? Could someone please elucidate this?
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Why did Kant think that you should be responsible for the consequences of lying but not for the consequences of telling the truth?
Can someone here clarify what Kant meant with the following statement:
if you have by a lie prevented someone just now bent on murder from committing the deed, then you are legally accountable for ...
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The synthetic apriority of the categorical imperative
Weirdness I noticed about Kant's theory of the categorical imperative: he says that the CI is "synthetic," in the second Critique using the very imposing phrase "sic volo, sic jubeo" to characterize ...
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Could hypothetical imperatives be fictions?
Hypothetical imperatives are practical imperatives that show how to achieve some goal. An example from wikipedia is:
"I must study to get a degree."
I believe they are part of Sellar's "manifest ...
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What is the status of the impossibility of metaphysics?
SEP describes the thesis that metaphysics is impossible as follows:
Let us call the thesis that all metaphysical statements are meaningless “the strong form” of the thesis that metaphysics is ...
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Is brain reward hacking immoral?
Consider the following scenarios, each of which at their core refer to a form of 'reward hacking'.
Based on personal observation, each scenario below generally elicits an immediate, visceral feeling ...
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The notion of knowledge for Kant and mathematical objects
As far as I understand the notion of knowledge in Kantian philosophy, we cannot speak of knowing something unless there is a relation between its concept and some object of intuition in experience.
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Did Kant classify the same proposition as both pure and impure a priori?
I'm confused about what seems to be a contradiction between statements from sections I and II of the introduction of (Meiklejohn's translation of) Kant's Critique of Pure Reason.
The section I ...
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Is the beginning of Hegel's philosophy an example of foundationalism?
one preliminary remark: this post could be of interest to anyone engaging with the thought of Hegel (especially his theoretical philosophy) or who is interested in fundamental metaphysical problems.
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Categorical Imperative vs. Utilitarianism
I'm watching philosophy crash course, and the narrator claimed that Utilitarianism is the antithesis of the of Kant's categorical imperative. However, on the surface, I can't see a major difference. ...
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Could an almighty Creator make something that existed for its own sake?
If someone sees their existence as an end in itself, yet also admits that they did not create themselves, then are they not saying that whatever created them had done so for their [the created thing's]...
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Is Kant's thing-in-itself equivalent to Freud's unconscious?
In this video on Youtube (Kant, la experiencia posible y la experiencia imposible) at about 12minutes 50seconds, the presenter seems to say (my translation from the Spanish subtitles)
... Kant's ...
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What does Kant mean by the terms “objective” and “subjective”?
This shows up a lot on his "Groundworks to the Metaphysics of Morals", without a prior definition, such as in
Everything in nature works according to laws. Rational beings alone
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Can the height in another dimension look different from different dimensions? [closed]
Can the height in another dimension look different from different dimensions that we know?
For example, can the width looks different than we see it?
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Where can I read Kant's view of thinking as willing, spontaneity and re-presenting?
I am reading Martin Heidegger's Discourse on Thinking. At the beginning of "Conversation on a Country Path About Thinking*, the Scholar remarks: (page 58-9)
But thinking, understood in the ...
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Are these Two Premises Potential Flaws in Kant's Moral Theory?
In the Preface of the Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals Kant says he believes that moral philosophy must be devoid of inputs from human nature (“anthropology”):
[Starting at about 4:389]
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