KANT: Critique of Pure Reason [Prefaces, Introduction, Transcendental Aesthetic]

Speaking of David Hume’s radical empiricism and problem of induction, Immanuel Kant wrote, “I freely admit that the remembrance of David Hume was the very thing that many years ago first interrupted my dogmatic slumber and gave a completely different direction to my researches in the field of speculative philosophy.”

KANT: Science of Right

 

Introduction to the Science of Right

General Definitions and Divisions

• What the Science of Right is.

o   The Science of Right is the theoretical knowledge of right and law. It is from this science that all practical legislation is derived by jurists and lawgivers.

KANT: Fundamental Principles of the Metaphysic of Morals [Sections II-III]

Fundamental Principles of the Metaphysics of Morals by Immanuel Kant

SECTION II: Transition from Popular Moral Philosophy to the Metaphysic of Morals

• One will not find a pure moral action – i.e. an action motivated solely by a respect for duty – in experience. It is always at least doubtful whether an action is done strictly from duty, and not motivated by some other selfish goal.

KANT: Fundamental Principles of the Metaphysic of Morals [Preface, Section I]

Fundamental Principles of the Metaphysics of Morals by Immanuel Kant

PREFACE

• Ancient Greek philosophy was divided into 3 sciences – physics, ethic, and logic.