Categorical and Agent-neutral Reasons in Kantian Justifications of Morality

Autor:	Vaughn Huckfeldt
Rok vydání:	2007
Předmět:	Philosophy of mind Philosophy of science media_common.quotation_subject Philosophy Morality Epistemology Philosophy of language Practical reason Moral philosophy medicine medicine.symptom Categorical variable media_common Confusion
Zdroj:	Philosophia. 35:23-41
ISSN:	1574-9274 0048-3893
DOI:	10.1007/s11406-007-9051-2
Popis:	The dispute between Kantians and Humeans over whether practical reason can justify moral reasons for all agents is often characterized as a debate over whether reasons are hypothetical or categorical. Instead, this debate must be understood in terms of the distinction between agent-neutral and agent-relative reasons. This paper considers Alan Gewirth’s Reason and Morality as a case study of a Kantian justification of morality focused on deriving categorical reasons from hypothetical reasons. The case study demonstrates first, the possibility of categorical agent-relative reasons, and second, that inattention to this possibility has caused considerable confusion in the debate between Kantians and Humeans.
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
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