Abstract
In this paper, I present different ways in which transcendental argumentation has been used in contemporary debates in moral philosophy to justify the normative authority of morality. My aim is to defend strong “retorsive” transcendental argumentation as a way to ground a sort of critical realism in metaethics, comparing transcendental arguments proposed by Karl-Otto Apel, Christine Korsgaard and Alan Gewirth – which are sometimes referred to as “constitutivist” arguments. In particular, I endorse an argumentative strategy that considers the merits of the respective positions while overcoming the limits of each. Such a strategy aims at grounding transcendentally the metaphysical fact of human value, making explicit the ontological implications of transcendental argumentation, and showing that a justification of fundamental values alone can ultimately make it possible to ground basic moral principles.
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- Transcendental Arguments and the Sources of Value: Constitutivism as Critical Realism
- On Natural and Transcendental Illusions in a Kantian-Pragmatist Philosophical Anthropology
- Kantian vs. Platonic: The Ambiguity of Schopenhauer’s Notion of Ideas Explained via Its Origins
- The Nature and Status of Concepts in Phenomenology
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- Book Reviews
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- Matthew Rukgaber, Space, Time, and the Origins of Transcendental Idealism: Immanuel Kant’s Philosophy from 1747 to 1770
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Artikel in diesem Heft
- Frontmatter
- Research Articles
- Transcendental Arguments and the Sources of Value: Constitutivism as Critical Realism
- On Natural and Transcendental Illusions in a Kantian-Pragmatist Philosophical Anthropology
- Kantian vs. Platonic: The Ambiguity of Schopenhauer’s Notion of Ideas Explained via Its Origins
- The Nature and Status of Concepts in Phenomenology
- Psychophysiological Transcendentalism in Friedrich Albert Lange’s Social and Political Philosophy
- Book Reviews
- Brandon C. Look.: Leibniz and Kant
- Matthew Rukgaber, Space, Time, and the Origins of Transcendental Idealism: Immanuel Kant’s Philosophy from 1747 to 1770
- Peter Antich, Motivation and the Primacy of Perception: Merleau-Ponty’s Phenomenology of Knowledge, Athens OH: Ohio UP, 2021, pp. 264, ISBN 978-0-8214-2432-2 (hbk) $95.00.