KANT AND THE POSSIBILITY OF MORAL MOTIVATION

Author(s): GIORGIANA-GRATIELA BALACEANU
Journal: Linguistic and Philosophical Investigations
ISSN: 1841-0295
Year: 2005
Volume: 4
Issue: 1
Full text: http://denbridgepress.com/lpi_abstract.php?a=15
Publisher: Denbridge Press - New York
Abstract: Kant stresses both self-legislation and self-government as essential to autonomy, in addition to its foundational role in endowing persons with dignity. Knowledge of moral generalizations is prior to knowledge of specific moral judgments, for example the judgment that a given sentence is unjust.