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• School: University of Alberta
• Department: Philosophy at St Joseph's College
• Course: PHIL343
• Professor: Robert Burch

Document Summary

For kant, the purpose of the foundations of the metaphysics of morals is very narrow: it is nothing more than searching for and establishing the supreme principle of morality. (247) that"s the categorical imperative. It is the principle that underlays moral experience. Kant is asking himself how moral experience, making distinctions between those things we want and those things we ouht to do, is possible. It is not derived from moral experience, it is the condition of moral experience. Analogous to the theoretical , the forms of the intuition and understanding precede and make possible our empirical knowledge. they are not derived from experience. they are the conditions of experience. The task is to establish the principle of morality purely without any other conditions or considerations of physics or anthropology etc. It must be established purely on the basis of reason alone. How is it our reason constitutes the world of action in order to make morality possible.