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  2. Category (Kant) - Wikipedia

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    In Immanuel Kant's philosophy, a category (German: Categorie in the original or Kategorie in modern German) is a pure concept of the understanding (Verstand). A Kantian category is a characteristic of the appearance of any object in general, before it has been experienced ( a priori ).

  3. Kantian ethics - Wikipedia

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    Mill argued that Kant's ethics could not explain why certain actions are wrong without appealing to utilitarianism. [84] As basis for morality, Mill believed that his principle of utility has a stronger intuitive grounding than Kant's reliance on reason, and can better explain why certain actions are right or wrong.

  4. Critique of Pure Reason - Wikipedia

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    On the other hand, anti-rationalist critics of Kant's ethics consider it too abstract, alienating, altruistic or detached from human concern to actually be able to guide human behavior. It is then that the Critique of Pure Reason offers the best defense, demonstrating that in human concern and behavior, the influence of rationality is preponderant.

  5. Critique of the Kantian philosophy - Wikipedia

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    Kant tried to explain how: a perceived object, not mere raw sensation, is given to the mind by sensibility (sensation, space, and time), and; how the human understanding produces an experienced object by thinking twelve categories. Kant doesn't explain how something external causes sensation in a sense organ.

  6. Kantianism - Wikipedia

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    Kant's ethics are founded on his view of rationality as the ultimate good and his belief that all people are fundamentally rational beings. This led to the most important part of Kant's ethics, the formulation of the categorical imperative , which is the criterion for whether a maxim is good or bad.

  7. Categorical imperative - Wikipedia

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    Kant considered the right prior to the good; to him, the latter was morally dependent on the former. In Kant's view, a person cannot decide whether conduct is right, or moral, through empirical means. Such judgments must be reached a priori, using pure practical reason independently of the influence of felt motives, or inclinations.

  8. Schema (Kant) - Wikipedia

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    A Kantian Category is now vaguely considered by cognitive scientists to be a "schema," which was a term that Kant had already used to designate the subsumption of an empirical intuition, through time, under a category or pure concept.

  9. Kingdom of Ends - Wikipedia

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    The Kingdom of Ends (German: Reich der Zwecke) is a part of the categorical imperative theory of Immanuel Kant. It is regularly discussed in relation to Kant's moral theory and its application to ethics and philosophy in general. The kingdom of ends centers on the second and third formulations of the categorical imperative. These help form the ...