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The Categorical Imperative Analyzing Immanuel Kant’s Grounding for A Metaphysics of Morals

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Bordum, Anders (Department of Management, Politics and Philosophy, Copenhagen Business School)
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In this article I first argue that Immanuel Kant’s conception of the categorical imperative is important to his philosophy. I systematically, though indirectly, interconnect the cognitive and moral aspects of his thinking. Second, I present an interpretation of the Kantian ethics, taking as my point of departure, the concept of the categorical imperative. Finally, I show how the categorical imperative is given a dialogical interpretation by Jürgen Habermas in his approach, usually referred to as discourse ethics. I argue that the dialogical approach taken by discourse ethics is more justifiable and therefore more useful i .

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Paper provided by Copenhagen Business School, Department of Management, Politics & Philosophy in its series Working Papers with number 4/2002.

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Length: 23 pages
Date of creation: 01 Jan 2002
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Handle: RePEc:hhb:cbslpf:2002_004

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Keywords: Categorical imperative; discourse ethics; duty; ethics; monologic; dialogic; Immanuel Kant; Jürgen Habermas; self-legislation; self-reference.;

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