XIV-Kant on the Ethics of Belief

2014/12/01 by Alix Cohen · 1 citation
Arts and Humanities · Social Sciences · #Epistemology, Ethics, and Metaphysics #Hannah Arendt's Political Philosophy #Philosophical Ethics and Theory

paper · doi:10.1111/j.1467-9264.2014.00375.x

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Abstract

In this paper, I explore the possibility of developing a Kantian account of the ethics of belief by deploying the tools provided by Kant's ethics. To do so, I reconstruct epistemic concepts and arguments on the model of their ethical counterparts, focusing on the notions of epistemic principle, epistemic maxim and epistemic universalizability test. On this basis, I suggest that there is an analogy between our position as moral agents and as cognizers: our actions and our thoughts are subject to the same rational norm.

Citations

• Groundwork of The Metaphysic of Morals
• Kant's Concepts of Justification

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• Kant's Dialectic of Enlightenment

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