Freedom And Reason In Kant
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Alice Furnari 24 /2/97
Freedom and Reason in Kant
Morality, Kant says, cannot be regarded as a set of rules which prescribe the means necessary to the achievement of a given end; its rules
must be obeyed without consideration of the consequences that will follow from doing so or not. A principle that presupposes a desired
object as the determinant of the will cannot give rise to a moral law; that is, the morality of an act of will cannot be determined by the
matter or content of the will for when the will is materially determined the question of its morality does not arise.
This consideration leads Kant to one of his most important theses. If the moral character of willing is not determined by the content of
what is willed, it must be determined by the form:" If...