POLC71H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Practical Philosophy, Deontological Ethics, Perpetual Peace
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Practical philosophy moral and political theory: when kant talks about practical philosophy, he is referring to moral and political theory, autonomous self. For kant, political theory is inseparably tied to moral theory (aristotle. What unites them both together as one system is a shared concern for human autonomy. To be autonomous, you must be bale to give a law or maxim to yourself and willing to live according to that maxim. It is autonomy that links it all together. To be an autonomous person is to be a person that is able to give a law to themselves. One of the conditions about being a free person for kant is law, and it is the type of law that you have to make you make yourself the author. If the law that you are bound to follow is proposed by some coercive force, then you are not an autonomous person.
