Essay Archive - Kantian Philosophy
Kantian Philosophy
Kant wants to avoid the skeptical attack by excluding experience
from his judgements. By doing so, he makes an attempt at evaluating moral
acts in themselves (a priori), without any prior knowledge (a posteriori).
This allowed him to avoid the empiricists of his time as they claimed that
all of our knowledge, as well as our morality, stemmed from experience.
His philosophical project was this: to find an a priori morality that did
not rely on experience or prior knowledge, rather one that depended on the
reasoning of a rati....
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