Hegel on the Empty Formalism of Kant's Categorical Imperative

In Stephen Houlgate & Michael Baur (eds.), A Companion to Hegel. Malden, MA: Wiley‐Blackwell. pp. 263–280 (2011)
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philosophy of right ‐ Hegel on the empty formalism of Kant's categorical imperative   Hegel, telling us that Kant's supreme practical law ‐ or categorical imperative, an “empty formalism”   Hegel's misunderstanding ‐ of Kant's intention, deriving duties from supreme moral law   others fault Hegel, narrowly focusing ‐ on Kant's first formulation of the moral law, “FUL”   Hegel's empty formalism objection ‐ explicit, in his Natural Law essay of 1802 and Philosophy of Right of 1821   Hegel's writing, “essence of the pure will ‐ and of pure practical reason to abstract from all content”   Philosophy of Right, Hegel likewise ‐ singling out more than categorical imperative for attack   Hegel's explicit complaint ‐ Kant's supreme moral law, inadequate for its intended task   The Kantians, establishing that the FUL test ‐ does not presuppose content   Hegel, focusing ‐ on most abstract formulation of moral law, FUL

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