2011 | OriginalPaper | Buchkapitel
Kant’s Humanist Ethics
verfasst von : Claus Dierksmeier
Erschienen in: Humanistic Ethics in the Age of Globality
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan UK
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In this chapter we investigate how Kant’s philosophy contributes universalistic arguments in favor of a humanistic ethics. Kant moved the idea of freedom to the center of his philosophy, arguing that from a reflection on the nature of human freedom a self- critical assessment of its morally appropriate use could be gleaned. Therein, that is, in construing his ethics from (subjective) self- reflection rather than from presumed (objective) values, and in construing norms of interpersonal validity from the individual perspective (“bottom- up”) rather than from (“top- down”) references to prearranged ethical or metaphysical orders, lies Kant’s innovation in ethics theory.