PHILO-120 Lecture Notes - Lecture 19: Positive Liberty, Negative Liberty, Categorical Imperative
28 Oct 2020
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1) negative freedom - alien causes do not determine your action its a law not alien (i. e. a law you make) that determines your actions. Sometimes, compulsion? but not sure if kant intended to include uncontrollable compulsions. A law you make determines your action (or at least could) You could have or would have an end that isn"t merely given without rational defense. Since our positive freedom is positively defended: If we have positive freedom, then in our positive freedom exists our ability to act according to the categorical imperative. Ci is the only thing that can make us positively free. Kant: but this is not a moral principle because it is based on. Section 2: if there is a universal rational principle, it is the ci. Section 3: if we are positively free, then there is a universal rational principle. One of the big questions that kant has to deal with:
