Add to ORKGAccording to the objection from positive duties, Kant's Formula of Universal Law is flawed because it cannot be used to derive any affirmative moral requirements. This paper offers a response to that objection and proposes a novel way to derive positive duties from Kant's formula. The Formula of Universal Law yields positive duties to adopt our own perfection and others’ happiness as ends because we could not rationally fail to will those ends as universal ends
In this paper, I confront Parfit’s Mixed Maxims Objection. I argue that recent attempts to respond t...
In his discussion of the duty of benevolence in §27 of the Metaphysics of Morals, Kant argues that a...
Kant’s most prominent formulation of the Categorical Imperative, known as the Formula of Universal L...
According to the objection from positive duties, Kant's Formula of Universal Law is flawed because i...
Ever since Hegel famously objected to Kant’s universalization formulations of the Categorical Impera...
Author Posting © Cambridge University Press, 2014. This article is posted here by permission of Camb...
According to Kant, the supreme principle of morality is: “act only according to that maxim through w...
My goal in this piece is to show that there is a problem lurking in the shadows of recent attempts t...
In this paper I am going to raise a problem for recent attempts to derive positive duties from Kant’...
Kant’s formula of universal law (FUL) is standardly understood as a test of the moral permissibility...
My goal in this paper is to show that it is not the case that positive duties can be derived from Ka...
Author Posting © Philosophical Inquiry, 2017. This article is posted here by permission of Philosoph...
In this paper, I confront Parfit’s Mixed Maxims Objection. I argue that recent attempts to respond t...
In his discussion of the duty of benevolence in §27 of the Metaphysics of Morals, Kant argues that a...
Kant’s most prominent formulation of the Categorical Imperative, known as the Formula of Universal L...
According to the objection from positive duties, Kant's Formula of Universal Law is flawed because i...
Ever since Hegel famously objected to Kant’s universalization formulations of the Categorical Impera...
Author Posting © Cambridge University Press, 2014. This article is posted here by permission of Camb...
According to Kant, the supreme principle of morality is: “act only according to that maxim through w...
My goal in this piece is to show that there is a problem lurking in the shadows of recent attempts t...
In this paper I am going to raise a problem for recent attempts to derive positive duties from Kant’...
Kant’s formula of universal law (FUL) is standardly understood as a test of the moral permissibility...
My goal in this paper is to show that it is not the case that positive duties can be derived from Ka...
Author Posting © Philosophical Inquiry, 2017. This article is posted here by permission of Philosoph...
In this paper, I confront Parfit’s Mixed Maxims Objection. I argue that recent attempts to respond t...
In his discussion of the duty of benevolence in §27 of the Metaphysics of Morals, Kant argues that a...
Kant’s most prominent formulation of the Categorical Imperative, known as the Formula of Universal L...