PHIL250 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Categorical Imperative
5 Jan 2016
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Positive concept of freedom: to be self ruling, purely rational. Negative part: heteronomy means to be determined by something outside yourself while autonomy means to not be determined by something outside of yourself. If you assume freedom of the will then you get morality because you have reason as self-legislating. Taking yourselves to be an ends can"t come from sensation or understanding. Synthetic because time and causality (forms of intuition and categories of understanding--> this is how you know objects) are brought together. The positive concept of freedom provides us with the third thing that links good will and maxim that contains itself; certain kind of causality. If you presuppose freedom, then you get reason/moral law and vice versa. If we have positive concept of freedom then we have categorical imperative. By thinking of your limitations, you have already thought beyond those limits, you have gone beyond the limit. We do not break limits in causal realms.
