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...
jwubnig@...
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...
the highest good makes virtue the condition of happiness, thus a happiness in the spirit of the moral law. This is peculiar, to be sure, but not impossible to...
I understand that, but can you know it is a bird from Unity, or does that take Totality? ... composed of a variety of parts, all of which come together in that...
well, you can't help wanting happiness; and that makes it a good, more or less. but moral value trumps happiness (or "utility"); there are two types of goods...
William Peck
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Dec 17, 2007 8:35 pm
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Kevin, both unity and totality are involved, since you cannot make sense of any object without seeing it both as a single object, composed of parts, all of...
Happiness is not good merely because we can't help wanting it: as such it is neither good not bad, since no moral judgment can be made about that which leaves...
bird is a unity, composed of parts, its wings and such. To see the wings and such as all operating together within the same object, the bird, is to see the...
What I am having trouble understanding is, concerning the metaphysical deduction, what universal characteristics (of a bird for example), in form of judgement...
What I am understanding you to say is that Unity will tell you that it is a bird, and you don't need Totality to know that, since you've said that bird is a...
Hi all, I'm with Judy on this one. Without the sharp opposition between heteronomous nature and autonomous reason, the CI would be unmotivated. It is only...
Hi Kevin, I recommend Frederick Beiser's _The Fate of Reason: German Philosophy from Kant to Fichte_. It won't answer your question, but it will help to...
do the remarks about reflection/abstraction/comparison come from kant, or just from omar? bill peck...
William Peck
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Dec 18, 2007 8:40 pm
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i think the first point is wrong, ie, gets kant wrong. my idea is that kant thought that happiness was a good, but a natural rather than a moral good (as one...
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