Isn't the first of the three qualitative categories the category, or at least that is how Smith translates it? in the proofs of principles Kant justifies...
Correction: the third of the qualitative categories is the category of reality. Omar ... From: Omar Lughod <olughod2003@...> To: kant@yahoogroups.com ...
Dear Herman, Forgive the belated reply. China has many distractions. If you use the word psychology in the same manner that Kant uses the word transcendental...
Hi everyone, There was only one post in October, and so I guess this will be the one for November. I always appreciate your true-view reading of Kant's system...
In fact, I think it doesnt take much adjustment to see Kant's treatment of teleological reflection as applicable to modern evolutionary thought. Every...
What is the category of unity? What does something like "all birds have wings" have to do with viewing something as a whole or unity? I'm asking this for the...
In regards to the example, All birds have wings What I mean exactly is does the function of unity arrange a possible predicate Bird for that which was intuited...
Kevin, The entire proposition "all birds have wings" is such a unity, as are each of its parts. and so are theirs. Each of these unities is comprised of parts,...
i see that omar is again up to his supersensibilizing of K's ethics. I should think that necessity and universality come for kant not from the supersensible...
William Peck
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Nov 22, 2007 11:47 pm
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By adding the word "practical", you beg the question as to the fundamental role played by logic in commanding us to action. "practical" is doing the work of...
William Peck
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Nov 23, 2007 9:03 pm
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true, it's transcendental logic and not merely "general" logic, or (just) formal logic, that's in question. and it's the practical branch of trans. logic, the...
William Peck
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Nov 23, 2007 9:12 pm
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everyone have categorical imperative. this categorical is the standard for universality. lukman ... ...
Lying does involve a contradiction, of sorts, to rational action, as you say, but morality involves more than this. Logic is a negative science; it tells us...
stressing logic in interpreting kant on morality follows k's own stress on duty, and this is indeed a negative spin. so i think what omar is doing here is to...
William Peck
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Dec 11, 2007 7:51 pm
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Duty is not negative, but a positive in Kant's hands: you ought to try to act out of respect for the law; you ought also to try to achieve a happiness...
and then there is the correlate, that good moral behavior shapes who we are and how we act, and forms our character or personality, and this is the seat of our...
i don't think this is right, but i'm not sure just what the right way is to put the point. if you look beyond kant it's quite clear that many ethical theorists...
William Peck
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Dec 12, 2007 7:05 pm
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I don't think the right/good equation works with Kant. Justice is external freedom, hence achieves embodiment through negative laws. But justice is not...
the duty, in Kant, is to the spirit of the law: to do a thing for the right reason, and the right reason is a good one. One should seek to achieve the right...
Philosophy is not a sociological approach to truth. That many people think something is right, does not make it a criteria for universal knowledge. Kant's...
... most visibly (if i remember) in two places: first there's the beginning of the Groundwork, which focusses on the good will, but then argues that in human...
William Peck
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Dec 14, 2007 8:44 pm
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Dear Bill and others in the Kant group, Did your receive the article about Kant's account of justification from NOUS, Complimentary from Blackwell-Wiley? I...
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Dec 15, 2007 3:56 am
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Yes, the good, straight up, is for angels, which is why the good, when it is for humans, is merely a regulative ideal, that still has its source in the moral...
nope, i didn't. but then i'm emeritus - ?... bill p...
William Peck
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Dec 15, 2007 8:24 pm
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yes indeed. but i think one should add that the highest good essentially includes happiness. and K doesn't think we have a right to happiness, does he? (and...
William Peck
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Dec 15, 2007 8:27 pm
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I understand that a bird is a unity of particulars. But what I don't understand, with regards to the metaphysical deduction, that unity has to do with...
We do not have a right to happiness, no matter how much we act out of duty, but happiness nonetheless follows those that act out of duty. (see the quote in my...
... Date: Thu, 13 Dec 2007 22:10:52 -0500 From: jwubnig@... Reply-To: jwubnig@... Subject: Kant's Concept of Justification ...
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Dec 17, 2007 4:17 am
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I think that Kant is simply inconsistent: the only good-in-itself is the good will, according to him, and he rejects all accounts of happiness being the good....
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Dec 17, 2007 4:27 am
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Keviin, To know that this mass of sensible data is a single entity, composed of a variety of parts, all of which come together in that entity; to know that...
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