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The Moral Value of the Will. The Concepts of Good and Evil in the Second Chapter of Kant’s Critique of Practical Reason

From the book Kant’s Theory of Value

  • Stephan Zimmermann

Abstract

The paper examines Kant’s understanding of the moral value of the human will. Relevant for this in the Critique of Practical Reason is the doctrine of the concepts of good and evil in the “Second Chapter”. One consideration takes up the composition of the Critique, which has not yet been sufficiently referred to by commentators to address this issue. The other consideration is of linguistic nature. Also Kant’s language has not yet been taken into consideration in this regard, although it provides deep insights into his understanding of the concepts of good and evil as the moral values of our will.

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