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Postscript: Kant’s naturalist moral idealism

from Part III - Morality beyond nature?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 December 2015

Frederick Rauscher
Affiliation:
Michigan State University
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In the postscript I review the particular assessments I made regarding the eight elements of Kant’s moral theory laid out in Chapter One. I pull together the features of my interpretation of Kant as a metaphysical naturalist. The various claims about transcendental and empirical realism and idealism are arranged into their basic sets and the core interpretive points that ground the main disagreement set out. I have identified a Kantian transcendental moral idealism that is also an empirical realism, thus dissolving some of the realist/constructivist disagreement. I show, however, that Kant is himself hesitant to endorse this transcendental validity for morality and, particularly in light of the priority of the practical point of view as an agent-perspective rational ordering of nature with no ontological claims of its own, that the more appropriate conclusion is that Kant was an empirical moral idealist.
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Print publication year: 2015

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