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This 3 page paper discusses the form that Kant used in his work “Grounding for the Metaphysics of Morals” and argues that it helps in understanding the content. Bibliography lists 1 source.
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listed below. Citation styles constantly change, and these examples may not contain the most recent updates. Content and Form in Grounding for the Metaphysics of Morals
Research Compiled by K. Von Huben 4/2010 Please Introduction Often, the form in which an author
chooses to present his arguments can have an impact on how easy (or difficult) it is to understand him. This paper considers the relationship between form and content in Immanuel
Kants Grounding for the Metaphysics of Morals. Discussion Its probably fair to say that no matter how Kant presents his material, its difficult to grasp. For instance, hes addicted to
run-on sentences, so that the reader gets lost in a thicket of subordinate clauses and needs a compass to get back to the path. But rather than constructing tortured analogies,
something one can do all night with increasingly bizarre results, lets see what he does here. In a very general sense, he adopts a time-honored "training" program that is
often used by the military: he talks about what hes going to discuss, then discusses it. In addition, this piece is famous for being the one in which he first
puts forth the philosophy for which he is arguably best known, that of the "categorical imperative." His method is that of the structured argument. He begins with a preface in
which he notes that ancient Greek philosophy "was divided into three sciences: physics, ethics, and logic," which was "perfectly suitable to the nature of the subject" (Kant, 2002 p. 954).
He goes on to say that all rational knowledge is one of two types: either it is material and "concerned with some object," or it is formal, which can be
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