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HomeUpcoming EventsHerlinde Pauer-Studer (Vienna): “A Community of Rational Beings”: Kant's Realm of Ends and The Distinction Between Internal and External Freedom
Herlinde Pauer-Studer (Vienna): “A Community of Rational Beings”: Kant's Realm of Ends and the Distinction Between Internal and External Freedom

In my talk I try to present a novel account of the relationship between Kant’s ethics and Kant’s philosophy of right. I reject the familiar claim that Kant’s Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals cannot offer a foundation for Kant’s philosophy of right. While I agree that the basic principle of Kant’s philosophy of right cannot be deduced from Kant’s ethical Categorical Imperatives, I try to show that we nevertheless find in Kant’s Groundwork the normative resources for grounding his philosophy of right. My thesis is that Kant’s conception of a realm of ends, as he develops it in the Groundwork, provides a common normative source for Kant’s ethical Categorical Imperatives, on the one hand, and the Universal Principle of Right, on the other. The agreement on common universal principles, as it is crucial for Kant’s notion of a realm of ends provides, I will argue, a justification of the ethical Categorical Imperatives and the Universal Principle of Right.

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  • Mon 14 Sep 2015, 12:30 pm - 2:00 pm

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Coombs Seminar Room D

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MSPT seminars