Kantian ethics Reference library
R. S. Downie
The Oxford Companion to Philosophy (2 ed.)
...distinguished recent exponent has been John Rawls , who accepts the core Kantian idea of mutually respecting autonomous rational wills, but adds to it ideas of his own to constitute the basis of his theory of justice. It is a nice point in many given cases when a theory is simply influenced by Kantian ethics, as distinct from being an example of Kantian ethics. An Existentialist such as Jean-Paul Sartre would not be happy with the idea that he was offering a version of Kantian ethics, but there is no doubt that he is greatly influenced by Kant. In Sartre (as...
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Kantianism Quick reference
A Dictionary of Ethics
... In ethics, Kantianism is an approach to moral theorizing that borrows substantially from Kant’s thinking. While such approaches nearly invariably endorse some form of deontology , they can borrow, emphasize, and develop different aspects of Kant’s work. Some Kantians, for example, stress the importance of autonomy to moral theorizing; others emphasize the idea of respect for persons; still others underscore the importance of formal constraints on moral decision making, such as the categorical...
moral law Quick reference
A Dictionary of Philosophy (3 ed.)
...law Some theories of ethics see the subject in terms of a number of laws (as in the Ten Commandments). The status of these laws may be that they are the edicts of a divine lawmaker, or that they are truths of reason, knowable a priori . Other approaches to ethics (e.g. eudaimonism , situation ethics , virtue ethics ) eschew general principles as much as possible, regarding them as at best rules-of-thumb, frequently disguising the great complexity of practical reasoning. For the Kantian notion of the moral law, see categorical imperative . See...
Scheler, Max Ferdinand (1874–1928) Quick reference
A Dictionary of Philosophy (3 ed.)
...Munich and studied in Jena, returning to learn about the phenomenology of Husserl in 1907 . In 1913 he wrote his Formalism in Ethics and Non-formal Ethics of Values , criticizing Kantian ethics for excessive formalism, and comparing moral perception to perception of secondary qualities . His philosophy developed in terms of the phenomenology of perception of non-Platonic essences, held together by a hierarchical, Kantian architecture. Among others he impressed Heidegger and Ortega y Gasset , and his second wife Märit Furtwängler was the sister of...
Cohen, Hermann Reference library
Lenn E. Goodman
The Oxford Companion to Philosophy (2 ed.)
...of Kantian philosophy. Son of a cantor and son-in-law of the liturgical composer Lewandowski , Cohen studied at Jewish and secular institutions, winning his Marburg chair after brilliantly defending Kant's a priori time and space. He went on to argue that all principles of knowledge are a priori : all objects are mental constructs; Kantian things-in-themselves , untenable. Newtonian physics demonstrates the reality of science and so the possibility of a priori judgements. But science progresses. It is never complete. Supplementing Kant's ethics with...
Brunschvicg, Léon Reference library
Stephen Priest
The Oxford Companion to Philosophy (2 ed.)
...Léon ( 1869–1944 ). French idealist philosopher who provides a sustained neo-Hegelian answer to the Kantian question: How is knowledge possible? Rejecting the Kantian project of a transcendental deduction of the categories, Brunschvicg construes philosophy as the historical reflection of consciousness on consciousness. This reveals ‘the progress of consciousness’ ( le progrès de la conscience ) typified by the emergence of the natural sciences, the findings of which, Brunschvicg argues, are consistent with his own idealism. Brunschvicg is also...
