He shows that thinkers from Grotius to Kant are profoundly united by this modern approach, and that it helped them to create a theory of natural human rights that remains of great political relevance ...
In this book, Jeanine Grenberg argues that everything important about Kant's moral philosophy emerges from careful reflection upon the common human moral experience of the conflict between happiness ...
To confront the questions and challenges in life that have no easy answers requires, in Kant’s words, the courage to use ... Are there objective moral truths or is morality subjective? What is the ...
So, for example, the philosopher Kant thought that it would ... Kerstein, Kant's Search for the Supreme Principle of Morality, 2002 Kant taught (rather optimistically) that every rational human ...
This course offers an introduction to and critical appraisal of Immanuel Kant's political philosophy. Despite the enormous influence which Kant's moral philosophy has exerted on debates in ...
The German philosopher never left his ... According to Kant, political action must always be guided by the law of morality. His work became the blueprint for the founding of the League of Nations ...
in particular on sexual morality. I also have extensive interests in the history of philosophy, especially the work of Augustine, Kant, Schopenhauer and Nietzsche. During the academic year 2006-2007 I ...
(In this, moral philosophy is not much worse off than any other subject of human inquiry-we do ... Like the lower animals, we would simply act from impulse or habit, or as Kant put it, from ...
The philosopher Immanuel Kant said that rational human beings should be treated as an end in themselves and not as a means to something else. The fact that we are human has value in itself.