KANT'S ETHICS IN THE ENLIGHTENMENT CONTEXT
KANT'S ETHICS IN THE ENLIGHTENMENT CONTEXT

Summary/Abstract: We can admit that Immanuel Kant's ethical doctrine is opposed to all classical systems, be they eudemonistic or idealistic. Kant agrees with modern naturalists, precisely in order to be able to move away from the claims of the ancients to develop a healthy morality with the means discovered in the nature of things. The rules of good conduct are not something to be discovered, but are known and more or less respected in real life. The purpose of the philosopher is not to invent them, but to understand their nature and to explain how it is that we know them. Kant is also receptive to the idea of a given consciousness, but he will represent it in a completely different way than his psychologist predecessors did.

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