Critique of Practical Reason

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these years come his challenging critiques of mass culture and the culture industry. He returned to Frankfurt in 1949 to take up position in philosophy department, he quickly established himself as a leading German intellectual and central figure in the Institute of Social Research. Institute provided the hub to what has come to be known as the Frankfurt School. Adorno became the Institute director in…

that virtue ethics relies on the actions of a person in adhering to their duty as a part of society’s moral expectations. Louden argues that a contemporary analysis is necessary while holding a more pragmatic application about Aristotle’s view of practical wisdom as the standard of a person’s virtue ethics. I contend that this fails because it only focused on the realities of the contemporary world versus the polis community of the Aristotle’s era when he formed his theory. After first…

to improve life by enhancing some favorable things such as happiness in the world while minimizing undesirable aspects such as grief (Urmson, 33). Consequently, the core objective of this essay is to define and critique both Act and Rule Utilitarianism, as well as determine the most practical kind of utilitarianism. According to Pojman, Act Utilitarianism views a deed as being acceptable if it leads to the realization of maximum benefits…

and not on the goodness of the consequences of those actions, some of those actions needs "motivation" I mean what caused you to do the action (i.e., your reason for doing it).. In other words, if a person's emotions or desires cause them to do something, then that action cannot give them moral worth. This may sound odd, but there is good reason to agree with Kant, this is what Kant’s arguing about which is the basic…

commentary and critique about imperialism in which the elephant is a metaphor for the colonized people and the British police officer is the colonizer in colonial Burma. Orwell’s essay helped readers to see that imperialism and empires are not clear cut and black and white as it seems to be, there are shades of grey, muddled, and a middleman between the two sides of the colonized and the colonizer. Orwell critiques about empire is all explained and commented in his essay. One of his critiques…

Immanuel Kant and David Hume will be discussed with regards to the relationship between reason and morality, and the role of sympathy in moral motivation and judgement will be assessed. Through their respective works, they both propose different positions and standpoints on the issue of morality. Hume’s position of morality comes from feelings, emotions and passions, whereas Kant believed that morality is based on reason and a duty that applies to a moral law (Thephilo, 2012). The standpoints of…

philosophy and anthropology during the Enlightenment at the end of the 18th century. Kant published other important works on ethics, religion, law, aesthetics, astronomy, and history. These included the Critique of Practical Reason 1788, the Metaphysics of Morals 1797, which dealt with ethics, and the Critique of Judgment 1790, which looks at aesthetics and teleology. In his book on ethics, Kant has propounded his theory on morality and how it affects our decision making in our lives. He set…

philosophers in the 21st century, is the importance of the relationship that exists in the human being between the abstract world and the empirical world. He came to the conclusion that if people want to have real knowledge and a good moral life, reason (rationalism) is needed and he/she must have some concrete data of the natural…

access to knowledge that is capable of classifying it as a pure mathematics. Kant acts as the center of understanding the modern physics through the establishment of the understanding of pure knowledge of metaphysics. His critique of the impending theory of knowledge and Critique of Pure Reasoning relates the ancient studies with the upcoming philosophical studies. He focuses on creating the essence…