Kant’s Philosophy: A Priori Judgments, Reason, and Ethics
Kant’s Philosophy: A Deep Dive
Subsequent trials only reveal their truth through proven experience. They aren’t universal. For example, the statement “Opera tickets are expensive” isn’t necessary because no trial requires that inputs be costly. Such judgments aren’t universal.
Analytical judgments can be considered a priori, while synthetic judgments are a posteriori. Kant stated that synthetic a priori judgments, such as “the line is the shortest distance between two points,” are instruments that expand our knowledge. This can’t be considered analytic because the concept of a straight line isn’t inherently linked to the idea of distance. It’s also not considered a posteriori because we know it’s true without needing to verify it universally. These supports are synthetic and necessary expressions.
Synthetic judgments provide new information about the world and can be a priori (universal and necessary), as seen in mathematics and physics. For example, in geometry, “angles in a section add up to two right angles” is a synthetic a priori judgment.
Practical Use of Reason
Practical reason answers the question: “How should I act?” Pure reason investigates the nature of things, while practical reason concerns itself with how things should be. It’s responsible for the form of actions, with the basic postulate being that reason makes freedom possible.
The Problem of Freedom
Freedom presents itself as an antinomy. Reason can’t provide responses because it lacks a relationship with experience. It’s a bet of reason, but one that needs answers science can’t provide. For Kant, determinism is the suppression of strange and foreign rules. The opposition is freedom through submission to one’s own laws, which exists only in man.
Rational Justification of Moral Rules
Reason can adopt its own laws of action in two ways: based on experience or independent of any experience. Taking experience into account suggests that goodness should be treated as a universal law that all human beings must meet, as a supreme good. Material ethics tell us what to do in certain limited circumstances and are only valuable if you get certain things, the categorical imperative (a posteriori) depends on our life experience, only valid for certain people, others will is heteronomous. These aren’t individual but collective.
Ethics is doing these proposed regulations, which achieves this has some drawbacks fin.Esta ethics: + to achieve the highest good a posteriori.para have to GET the experience factor. circustacia + depends on where one will find (individual 🙂 + provienn no rules of reason but from experience (heteronomous) tienne say that you do not tienne universal validity, are not valid for all this personas.Por kant ethics must build a priori, necessary and independent of experience (formal ethics) formal ethics must be capable of reason to give yourself the very leyes.Nos tells how to do those things. The term is called imperative categorical reason. Kant formulates the categorical imperative in this way (as one would like acts that everyone do the same) NNCAE ahgas not what you don t you hiciesen.No egustaria tartar people as property (not interchangeable) and not precio.Las put them formal ethics are autonomous, depends on the experience and knowledge for descurbir observe the maenra to bequeath to a universal law. (be good people) has the idea of duty.
Formal Ethics and the Categorical Imperative
Kant’s ethics must be built a priori, necessary, and independent of experience (formal ethics). Formal ethics must enable reason to give itself its own laws. It tells us how to do those things. This is called the categorical imperative. Kant formulates the categorical imperative as: act as one would like everyone else to act. Don’t do what you wouldn’t want done to you. Don’t treat people as property (interchangeable) and not precio.Las put them formal ethics are autonomous, depends on the experience and knowledge for descurbir observe the maenra to bequeath to a universal law. (be good people) has the idea of duty.