Abstract
Commentators disagree about the extent to which Kant’s ethics is compatible with consequentialism. A question that has not yet been asked is whether Kant had a view of his own regarding the fundamental difference between his ethical theory and a broadly consequentialist one. In this paper I argue that Kant does have such a view. I illustrate this by discussing his response to a well-known objection to his moral theory, namely that Kant offers an implicitly consequentialist theory of moral appraisal. This objection was most famously raised by Mill and Schopenhauer, but also during Kant’s time by Pistorius and Tittel. I show that Kant’s response to this objection in the second Critique illustrates that he sees the fundamental difference between his moral theory and a broadly consequentialist one to be one that concerns methodology.
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Artikel in diesem Heft
- Titelseiten
- Articles
- Das Thothbuch: eine ägyptische Vorlage der platonischen Schriftkritik im Phaidros?
- Desire and Impulse in Epictetus and the Older Stoics
- Ideas and Explanation in Early Modern Philosophy
- Spinoza’s Analysis of his Imagined Readers’ Axiology
- Kant and Consequentialism in Context: The Second Critique’s Response to Pistorius
- Nietzsche’s English Genealogy of Truthfulness
- Book Reviews
- Karbowski, Joseph, Aristotle’s Method in Ethics: Philosophy in Practice, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019, xii + 275 pp.
- Sommer, Andreas Urs, Kommentar zu Nietzsches Zur Genealogie der Moral. Historischer und kritischer Kommentar zu Friedrich Nietzsches Werken. Band 5/2. Hrsg. von der Heidelberger Akademie der Wissenschaften. Berlin/Boston: De Gruyter 2019, xvii + 723 pp.