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1013Rethinking Kant's Fact of ReasonPhilosophers' Imprint 14. 2014.Kant’s doctrine of the Fact of Reason is one of the most perplexing aspects of his moral philosophy. The aim of this paper is to defend Kant’s doctrine from the common charge of dogmatism. My defense turns on a previously unexplored analogy to the notion of ‘matters of fact’ popularized by members of the Royal Society in the seventeenth century. In their work, ‘facts’ were beyond doubt, often referring to experimental effects one could witness first hand. While Kant uses the German equivalent in…Read more
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19th Century Philosophy |
German Idealism |
Immanuel Kant |
Johann Gottlieb Fichte |
Indian Philosophy |
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Kant: Ethics |
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