"Kant grounding for the metaphysics of morals" Essays and Research Papers

Sort By:
Satisfactory Essays
Good Essays
Better Essays
Powerful Essays
Best Essays
Page 12 of 50 - About 500 Essays
  • Good Essays

    In Immanuel Kant’s Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals (1785)‚ he explains the concept of Categorical imperative. This theory‚ states that universal moral law is applicable to all rational beings and that universal law has no dependence on individualized objectives. Humans have the ability to reason and establish what their moral duties are. He produces an argument for this assessment of morality by addressing the roles of means and ends. A mean is something that is done in order to achieve a

    Premium Immanuel Kant Philosophy Categorical imperative

    • 582 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Better Essays

    Kant and Emerson

    • 2207 Words
    • 6 Pages

    agree In “Observations on the Feeling of the Beautiful and Sublime” section one by Immanuel Kant. Immanuel Kant begins with discussing the idea that feeling happy or sad does not come from the nature of external things but more of what a person’s ability to let things make them feel pleasure of pain. He stresses that all people are different. Something that may make someone feel upset can make another happy. Kant then continues to talk about the feeling of the sublime and beautiful. He uses examples

    Premium Aesthetics Immanuel Kant

    • 2207 Words
    • 6 Pages
    Better Essays
  • Good Essays

    Immanuel Kant

    • 865 Words
    • 4 Pages

    obligations and agreements where in today’s modern era‚ he’s being taught about to students around the globe. But during the 18th century Hume wasn’t the only great thinker during that time that had theories concerning science and how it works. Immanuel Kant‚ a German philosopher also brought forth theories that were as impactful to the world as Hume’s were. To understand Hume’s view on the world‚ one must first understand how cause and effect works as its basic definition and then how Hume sees it.

    Premium Metaphysics Causality David Hume

    • 865 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Better Essays

    Borodikhin Dmitriy ID: 20062471 group #3 Platonic and Aristotelian metaphysics Plato and Aristotle are the names of the two philosophers who had so much influence on philosophy as a science. Plato and Aristotle are connected with each other. At 17 years Aristotle entered the school of the Plato. From the beginning Aristotle was strongly on the side of Plato’s principles‚ and then his views became more differ from Plato. In Plato’s

    Free Aristotle Plato Theory of Forms

    • 1354 Words
    • 6 Pages
    Better Essays
  • Better Essays

    HYPERLINK "http://www.philosophypages.com/ph/kant.htm" Immanuel Kant answers the question in the first sentence of the essay: “Enlightenment is man’s emergence from his self-incurred immaturity.” He argues that the immaturity is self-inflicted not from a lack of understanding‚ but from the lack of courage to use one’s reason‚ intellect‚ and wisdom without the guidance of another. He exclaims that the motto of enlightenment is “Sapere aude”! – Dare to be wise! The German word Unmündigkeit means not

    Premium Immanuel Kant Age of Enlightenment David Hume

    • 1986 Words
    • 8 Pages
    Better Essays
  • Good Essays

    German philosopher Immanuel Kant‚ father of the categorical imperative‚ seems to have found me in the right season of life. German philosopher‚ Immanuel Kant‚ is considered by many to be a central figure in modern philosophy due to his contributions made to ethics‚ epistemology‚ metaphysics and aesthetics. Arguably‚ his most notable contribution is fathering the categorical imperative‚ a command of reason not based upon the desires of any one person. Kant also comments on various topics including

    Premium Immanuel Kant Philosophy Categorical imperative

    • 1060 Words
    • 5 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Good Essays

    and didn’t imply that there was a God who had really passed on‚ rather that our concept of one had. After the Enlightenment‚ the possibility of a universe that was administered by physical laws and not by divine provision was presently reality Metaphysics- Perspectivism is the view that our insight and comprehension are adapted by how we are seeing it. To see something‚ one must be specifically put and a specific time and view it from a specific point. One

    Premium Religion Philosophy Friedrich Nietzsche

    • 785 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Good Essays

    Metaphysics: Plato and Buddhism Plato used an idea called the cave allegory to show how humans are ignorant. Before I explain a real life example‚ I will explain the Idea. In the cave there are prisoners. These prisoners cannot move because they are restrained by chains. The only thing that they can see is a wall that illuminated by a great light. This light is actually a fire behind them‚ which has a low sitting wall in between itself and the prisoners. As men walk below the wall holding up objects

    Premium Truth Knowledge The Prisoner

    • 587 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Good Essays

    Spelman Vs Kant

    • 1358 Words
    • 6 Pages

    When talking about philosophy‚ there are many different theories of ethics. Some philosophers believe different things‚ or they expand on previous philosophies. Two theories in particular are Immanuel Kant’s deontological theory. This deals with the categorical imperative‚ and Elizabeth Spelman’s theory which discusses the ethics of care‚ and the ethics of justice. Although these theories are separated by centuries‚ they complement each other. Both theories discuss how to make ethical decisions.

    Premium Immanuel Kant Morality Ethics

    • 1358 Words
    • 6 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Better Essays

    Kant the Sublime

    • 1728 Words
    • 7 Pages

    how critical thought exists within an infinite amount of creativity with no principles but in search of them. Lyotard understands the Kantian sublime as a way to comply with the standards that critically analyze postmodernism using deconstruction. Kant differentiated the sublime between the vastness and greatness and the dynamic sublime. The vastness sublime is so great we can’t just use our senses like we normally do; it requires us to heighten our senses beyond comprehension. The dynamic sublime

    Premium Human Mind Sublime

    • 1728 Words
    • 7 Pages
    Better Essays
Page 1 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 50