The formal and material elements of Kant's ethics /

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Author / Creator:Washington, William Morrow.
Imprint:New York : Macmillan ; Berlin : Mayer and Müller, 1898.
Description:1 online resource (67 pages)
Language:English
Series:Columbia University contributions to philosophy, psychology and education ; v. 3, no. 1
Columbia University contributions to philosophy, psychology and education ; v. 3, no. 1.
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Summary:"The primal fact that strikes one in Kant's Ethics, leaving out of view the fact that they are a necessary part of his complete method, is that he is thoroughly animated by the spirit of Stoicism; and that further, in this spirit, he is aiming more particularly at a refutation of the contemporary sensationalistic schools. In accomplishing the double object called forth by these two facts, and in fitting his doctrines into the terminology of the critical method, he had the misfortune to express himself in terms peculiar to Logic; thereby provoking a merely logical refutation, and one, on that account, often wide of the mark and quite blind to the ethical truth conveyed. The terminology thus adopted was that by which the elements of a science are classed under one of the two heads of Form or Matter"--Introduction. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)
Other form:Print version: Washington, William Morrow. Formal and material elements of Kant's ethics. New York : Macmillan ; Berlin : Mayer and Müller, 1898