POL 3102 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Rationality, A Priori And A Posteriori, French Revolution
27 Oct 2014
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Practice : written directly in the shadow of the french revolution, explicit task to show the relationship between, morality, national politics, international politics, the manifestation of the enlightenment, moral stance he grounds his notion of the self (morality, morality for kant is the adoption of a maxim, enlightenment, then, is the ability to act on maxims, not simply a process of getting more information more than a simply empirical undertaking. On the common saying : you can have all the information and not be enlightened, enlightenment is the way of using one"s reason, not simply the collection of information, rationality, not empiricism, is the height of the enlightenment, we all have this capacity to use our reason to discover what is right and how to act, an action is moral if it can be adopted as a maxim (universal law, there is a highest good and we should seek it.
