PHILOS 14 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: East Los Angeles College, Immanuel Kant, Joseph Butler
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Richard price (1723-1791)- welshman who supported the american. Thomas reed (1710-1796)- scot, published his major work in his 80s. Their moral theories were not entirely embedded on greater metaphysical accounts. We have a certain reason that is direct cognition of certain principles that motivates us to act. Immanuel kant (1724-1803)- has a lot in common with the intuitionist theories, but the basic position is that morality must be understood as the autonomy of the will. If we are to understand human morality, each of us as a rational being has the capacity to act on the principle like any other rational being. It"s not just cognitive capacity to grasp moral truths, but also the capacity for universal law giving. You might say the law- giving role of god, which is then taken over by the universal law-giving role of the finite being. Sentimentalist ethics- rejection of the rationalist accounts of moral knowledge/motivation that supported views like those found in spinoza.
