enow.com Web Search

Search results

  1. Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
  2. Kantian ethics - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kantian_ethics

    Like Kantian ethics, discourse ethics is a cognitive ethical theory, in that it supposes that truth and falsity can be attributed to ethical propositions. It also formulates a rule by which ethical actions can be determined and proposes that ethical actions should be universalizable, in a similar way to Kant's ethics.

  3. Kantianism - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kantianism

    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.

  4. History of ethical idealism - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_ethical_idealism

    Kant's advocacy for the "categorical imperative", a doctrine through which every individual choice has to be made with the consideration of the decider that it ought to be a universally held maxim, took place in the broader context of his metaphysical views. In Kant's writings, defiance of higher principles was not only wrong in a practical ...

  5. Immanuel Kant - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immanuel_Kant

    Immanuel Kant [a] (born Emanuel Kant; 22 April 1724 – 12 February 1804) was a German philosopher and one of the central Enlightenment thinkers. Born in Königsberg, Kant's comprehensive and systematic works in epistemology, metaphysics, ethics, and aesthetics have made him one of the most influential and controversial figures in modern Western philosophy.

  6. Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Groundwork_of_the...

    Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals (1785; German: Grundlegung zur Metaphysik der Sitten; also known as the Foundations of the Metaphysics of Morals, Grounding of the Metaphysics of Morals, and the Grounding for the Metaphysics of Morals) is the first of Immanuel Kant's mature works on moral philosophy and the first of his trilogy of major works on ethics alongside the Critique of ...

  7. Kingdom of Ends - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kingdom_of_Ends

    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 ...

  8. Critique of Practical Reason - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Critique_of_Practical_Reason

    Kant did not initially plan to publish a separate critique of practical reason. He published the first edition of the Critique of Pure Reason in May 1781 as a "critique of the entire faculty of reason in general" [1] [2] (viz., of both theoretical and practical reason) and a "propaedeutic" or preparation investigating "the faculty of reason in regard to all pure a priori cognition" [3] [4] to ...

  9. Critique of the Kantian philosophy - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Critique_of_the_Kantian...

    Kant asserted that the subjective statement that nature seems to have been created with a premeditated purpose does not necessarily have objective validity or truth. Kant claimed that the apparently purposive, deliberate constitution of organic bodies cannot be explained from merely mechanical causes.