DO WE NEED A METAPHYSICS OF MORALS? ON THE ACTUALITY OF KANT’S PROJECT OF GROUNDING A PRIORI PRACTICAL PRINCIPLES Cover Image

DO WE NEED A METAPHYSICS OF MORALS? ON THE ACTUALITY OF KANT’S PROJECT OF GROUNDING A PRIORI PRACTICAL PRINCIPLES
DO WE NEED A METAPHYSICS OF MORALS? ON THE ACTUALITY OF KANT’S PROJECT OF GROUNDING A PRIORI PRACTICAL PRINCIPLES

Author(s): Alessandro Pinzani
Subject(s): Philosophy
Published by: Instytut Filozofii i Socjologii Polskiej Akademii Nauk i Fundacja Filozofia na Rzecz Dialogu
Keywords: Kant; metaphysics of morals; doctrine of right; doctrine of virtue; Enlightenment

Summary/Abstract: This paper argues that Kant’s project of a metaphysics of morals represents a normative ideal grounded on the core ideas of Enlightenment. In the first section, it analyzes Kant’s concept of metaphysical principles of morals by establishing a connection between a metaphysics of morals and Kant’s concept of metaphysics in general and of metaphysics of nature in particular. It then discusses what is metaphysical in the Doctrine of Right and the Doctrine of Virtue. In its last section, it tackles the question of whether a non-metaphysical reading of Kant’s doctrines of right and of virtue is desirable if we want to remain faithful to Kant’s Enlightenment project.

  • Issue Year: 2021
  • Issue No: 3
  • Page Range: 249-264
  • Page Count: 16
  • Language: English