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Legislating the Moral Law

1994/12/01 by Andrews Reath
Arts and Humanities · Neuroscience · #Philosophical Ethics and Theory #Free Will and Agency #War, Ethics, and Justification

paper · doi:10.2307/2215474

Abstract

Kant believed that the moral law is a law that the rational will in some sense legislates. He regarded this thesis as an important philosophical discovery, and it first appears with the introduction of the Formula of Autonomy, whose central idea is that of "the will of every rational being as a will that legislates universal

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