PHIL-250 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: The Metaphysics Of Morals, Immanuel Kant, Hermeneutic Circle

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Supports metaphysical dualism: separatism between mind and body, and reason and. Like aristotle he recognized the inherent lack of clarity in all studies of ethics; however he. Will push god to the foreground, but will not reject the concept of god, sin, transcendence. Kant refers to reason as the totalizing faculty. During the enlightenment (during which kant wrote) people rejected religion and turned to. Immanuel kant: the grounding of the metaphysics of morals. The (cid:373)ai(cid:374) (cid:272)o(cid:374)(cid:272)e(cid:396)(cid:374) (cid:449)ill (cid:271)e si(cid:374) (cid:448)e(cid:396)sus li(cid:448)i(cid:374)g a (cid:862)good(cid:863) life. Ka(cid:374)t (cid:374)a(cid:396)(cid:396)o(cid:449)s the i(cid:374)(cid:395)ui(cid:396)(cid:455) do(cid:449)(cid:374) i(cid:374) a systematic way he will attempt to define moral deliberation and moral choice (how does one make a moral choice?) Critical philosophy: what is the condition of the possibility of x? for kant x will be morality. Hermeneutic circle: must always keep in mind each part as a systematic whole; examine each piece but also how it fits into the systematic treatise.

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