He rests this second project on the position that we — or at least creatures with rational wills — possess autonomy. ... This is the third reason for an a priori method, and it appears to have been of great importance to Kant: Moral requirements present themselves as being absolutely necessary. But an a posteriori...
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Traditional critiques of autonomy-based moral views, and Kant's in particular, have been mounted along various lines. I mention two here, as they connect with questions about issues concerning autonomy in social and political theory.
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A survey of the history of Western philosophy. ... At this point in the argument, Kant can provide a more technical statement of its intrinsic moral value by distinguishing between autonomy and heteronomy of the will.
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Quodlibet Online Journal article: On Kant's Notion of Moral Autonomy - by Scott David Foutz ... Although what has been offered here is only a brief and arguably simplistic overview of Kant's moral philosophy, it nevertheless allows for the accurate observation that the heart of Kant's theory is his notion of rational autonomy.
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Groundwork of the Metaphysic of Morals - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Foundations of the Metaphysics of Morals or Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals (German: , 1785), Immanuel Kant's first contribution to moral philosophy, argues for an a priori b...
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Kant thinks our personal moral autonomy requires that our rights be respected, otherwise we cannot make significant moral choices--they would not be choices of our own if we didn't have the right to make them.
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Dennis Sansom Samford University Birmingham, Alabama 35229 ... Baylor > Perspectives in Religious Studies > PRS Index > 1999 Volume 26 > Issue 01 - Spring 1999 > Does Morality Need God? A Kierkegaardian Critique of Kant's Moral Philosophy of Autonomy: pg. 17-34...
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Rawls insists that Kant's conception of "autonomy" rules out the existence of such an order. On Rawls's interpretation, the content of the moral law is constructed by the procedure rather than discovered by it.
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They argue that autonomy is best interpreted not as a psychological capacity, but as a kind of sovereignty: in claiming that moral agents have autonomy, Kant regards them as a kind of sovereign legislator with the power to give moral law through their willing.
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Kant's Moral Philosophy is, as you would expect, difficult to understand. It has become popular in our times, mainly as a viable alternative ... Finally, retarded human beings and animals are excluded from the moral kingdom of ends since they are not rational - hence, incapable of rationally guided moral autonomy...
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