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(1989) Kant's practical philosophy reconsidered, Dordrecht, Springer.
Autonomy, omniscience and the ethical imagination
from theoretical to practical philosophy in Kant
Carl J Posy
pp. 106-134
We all know that Kant held ethics and empirical science to be separate, incommensurable disciplines. He also claimed that his views about ethical and empirical knowledge fit together in a single "Critical" system. In the essay that follows I want to sketch a modern, 'semantic," interpretation of Kant's philosophy which explains both the unity of the critical system and the unbridgeable gap between ethical and empirical knowledge. I believe that this interpretation can help resolve some exegetical problems that appear to plague Kant's theories about ethics and empirical science. And I believe that it can also focus attention in a new way on some aspects of Kant's moral theory that seem most troubling today.
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DOI: 10.1007/978-94-017-2016-8_7
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Posy, C.J. (1989)., Autonomy, omniscience and the ethical imagination: from theoretical to practical philosophy in Kant, in Y. Yovel (ed.), Kant's practical philosophy reconsidered, Dordrecht, Springer, pp. 106-134.
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