6 Kant sometimes suggests (or at least many have read him this way) that his claim that our wills operate unlike everything else in nature is primarily a metaphysical claim, the claim that the will stands outside of the natural world but nevertheless affects it. In Kants overall theory, ...
"Kant's Conception of the Highest Good, the Gesinnung, and the Theory of Radical Evil." Kant-Studien: Philosophische Zeitschrift Der Kant- Gesellschaft 97 (2006): 184-209.CASWELL, Matthew, 2006, "Kant's Conception of the Highest Good, the Gesinnung, and the Theory of Radical Evil", ...
Kant answers in the negative; for to allow this to enter into our motive is to vitiate the only moral motive, “right for right’s sake”, by self-interest. This theory does not pay due regard to the order of things. The pleasurable feeling attendant upon action, in the order of ...
which reduces it to the idea of usefulness. Kant distinguished the supreme good from the absolute good. The former is good will and moral virtue; and latter requires that virtue be combined with happiness. Thereafter the concept of the good gradually lost its significance and, from the middle ...
However, according to Kant, man cannot will anything but under the idea of good and, in order to be able to bring the series of his ends to a close, he needs to conceive the idea of an unconditioned end of his, the "highest good". By tackling the problem of the universal meaning ...
The concept of the highest good plays a vital role in Kant’s moral theism. However, as many scholars suggest, Kant’s own texts about the very concept can be interpreted in different ways, some of which may imply that the practical postulate of God is n
The notion of the common good has been a consistent theme in Western politicalphilosophy, most notably in the work ofAristotle,Niccolò Machiavelli, andJean-Jacques Rousseau. It has been most clearly developed in the political theory ofrepublicanism, which hascontendedthat the common good is somethin...
The good will or its value is never used as a starting point for the derivation or explanation of any of these concepts, and expository attempts to present Kant’s ethical theory as if the value of the good will has such a role in the theory, though fairly common in the literature, ...
13.The Greatest Kindness Achieved by Honoring the Body as well as Principles--on Wang Gen s Theory on Honoring the Body;“须道尊身尊,才是至善”——论王艮的“尊身论” 14.Discussion on Free Will and Moral Goodness in Practical Philosophy论实践哲学中的意志自由与道德至善 ...
particular hunger or that particular appetite.And so when I act to satisfy it, I'm just acting according to natural necessity. And for Kant, freedom is the opposite of necessity. What way of acting, how can my will be determined if not by the prompting of nature or my hunger or my ...