enow.com Web Search

Search results

  1. Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
  2. Category (Kant) - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category_(Kant)

    Following Aristotle, Kant uses the term categories to describe the "pure concepts of the understanding, which apply to objects of intuition in general a priori…" [ 1 ] Kant further wrote about the categories: "They are concepts of an object in general, by means of which its intuition is regarded as determined with regard to one of the logical ...

  3. 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 ...

  4. Kantian ethics - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kantian_ethics

    Habermas argues that his ethical theory is an improvement on Kant's, [52] and rejects the dualistic framework of Kant's ethics. Kant distinguished between the phenomena world, which can be sensed and experienced by humans, and the noumena, or spiritual world, which is inaccessible to humans.

  5. 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.

  6. Schema (Kant) - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schema_(Kant)

    In Kantian philosophy, a transcendental schema (plural: schemata; from Ancient Greek: σχῆμα, 'form, shape, figure') is the procedural rule by which a category or pure, non-empirical concept is associated with a sense impression.

  7. Categorical imperative - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Categorical_imperative

    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. Critique of the Kantian philosophy - Wikipedia

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

    There is supposed to be a schema for each of the pure concepts (categories). Kant overlooked the fact that these pure concepts, being pure, have no perceptual content. They gain this content from empirical perception. Kant's schemata of pure concepts are entirely undemonstrable and are a merely arbitrary assumption.

  9. Theory of categories - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theory_of_categories

    This would result in the formation of three secondary categories: the first, "Community" was an example that Kant gave of such a derivative category; the second, "Modality", introduced by Kant, was a term which Hegel, in developing Kant's dialectical method, showed could also be seen as a derivative category; [37] and the third, "Spirit" or ...