PHIL 315 Lecture 10: LECTURE 10
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Something that is oriented towards action and action is oriented by intuition. Against this assumption of a unity between the principium diiudicationis and the principium executioniskant"s second argument, that of corruptibility, is addressed. Even if the philosophers had no limited competence to advise, they should be denied domination, because if they were not, their effective competence, the free judgment of reason, would be in danger of being corrupted. This argument against plato is anthropological in nature. According to kant, there are no strictly good rulers, that is, rulers who do not allow themselves to be corrupted. Indeed, although it is valid that without education the reason common to all men does not advance either, kant does not conclude from here an intellectual aristocracy. Philosophers do not have any kind of special abilities or exclusive intuitions and therefore no special rights.
