Objective Imperatives

Objective Imperatives
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Publisher : Oxford University Press
Total Pages : 205
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ISBN-10 : 9780192857064
ISBN-13 : 0192857061
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Book Synopsis Objective Imperatives by : Ralph C. S. Walker

Download or read book Objective Imperatives written by Ralph C. S. Walker and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2022-09-29 with total page 205 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kant held the moral law to be an objective imperative, an entity in its own right. It carries with it prescriptive force, in parallel to other principles of pure reason, like those of logic and mathematics. Objective imperatives therefore do not derive their authority from any other source,such as common consensus or the will of God. In Objective Imperatives, Ralph C. S. Walker seeks to show that this is a highly defensible view: Kant's Categorical Imperative, properly understood, is broadly right. The key to it is rationality, and not universality, which functions only as anapproximate test. Often, Kant sets the matter out badly, and most of the common objections to him can be shown to be due to misunderstandings. A morality that gives us an objective imperative does appear incompatible with the determinism to which Kant commits himself, but Walker argues that thisappearance is misleading.


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