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This 5 page report discusses Kant’s Grounding for the
Metaphysics of Morals, Kant is determined to find the most
reasonable principle of right or appropriate conduct understood
to be what human beings most commonly think of as moral conduct.
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Acting "in" Duty and Acting "from" Duty for - April 2001 -- for
more information on using this paper properly! Introduction The foundation of Immanuel Kants (1724-1804) critical philosophy is in his reasoning that is based on his examination of human
knowledge and forms the basis for an individual theory of the limits of that knowledge. Kant, like many of his predecessors, differentiated modes of thinking into analytic and "synthetic" purposes
or schemes. An analytic proposition is one in which the predicate is contained in the subject ("Black cats are cats"). The truth of the proposition is evident, because to
state the reverse would be to make the proposition self-contradictory, making it "analytic" since truth is discovered by the analysis of the concept itself. Synthetic propositions, on the other hand,
are those that cannot be arrived at by pure analysis, as in the statement "The cat is black." As a result, Kants thinking asserts that all the common propositions that
result from experience of the world are synthetic. The question that then presents itself is whether or not such simplistic analysis has any true value in determination of a
moral philosophy. It is important to understand that Kant makes a clear distinction between perceiving and thinking, which he credits to two specific capabilities of the mind, sense and understanding.
Each judgment places an abstraction to a specific; apprehension of particulars then is within the realm of the faculty of sense, apprehension of concepts belongs to the realm of understanding.
For example, Kants The Critique of Pure Reason (1781) begins with the words: "There can be no doubt that all our knowledge begins with experience." But Kant also asserts that
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