PHIL 2070 Lecture 2: KantLecture
23 Oct 2017
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Morality, just as much as mathematics, is constituted in part by a priori elements originating from nature of reason itself. So unlike hobbes who was an empiricist, kant insists that there are some elemts of morality that we know before experience or independently of experience, though ultimately ethics is a mix. Ethics on its empirical side- sets outside as concretely as can be achieved, what we know about the actual conditions of human life. The various rules by which we conduct ourselves, the various virtues to which we should aspire. But that project which kant calls moral anthropology is not his objective in our reading the. On is formal side, morality explores the roles played by rational principles. As regards to moral judgements we are to make as regards the actions that are based on such judgements. So the argument in the grounding, belongs exclusively to the formal side of ethics, not grounded in anything empirical.
