<p><span>Immanuel Kant's moral philosophy has often been criticized for ignoring a crucial dimension of community in its account of the lives that agents ought to lead. Historical and contemporary critics alike often paint Kant's moral theory, with its emphasis on rationality, as overly formalistic
Unnecessary evil : history and moral progress in the philosophy of Immanuel Kant
β Scribed by Anderson-Gold, Sharon, 1947-
- Publisher
- Albany : State University of New York Press
- Year
- 2001
- Tongue
- English
- Category
- Library
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β¦ Synopsis
Includes bibliographical references (p. 111-130) and index
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Immanuel Kant's moral philosophy has often been criticized for ignoring a crucial dimension of community in its account of the lives that agents ought to lead. Historical and contemporary critics alike often paint Kant's moral theory, with its emphasis on rationality, as overly formalistic and unrea
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<span>Kant's early critics maintained that his theory of freedom faces a dilemma: either it reduces the will's activity to strict necessity by making it subject to the causality of the moral law, or it reduces the will's activity to blind chance by liberating it from rules of any kind. This Element