![]() Being mired in a maze of contingent reason, it is very difficult for the lettered to arrive at morality. Contingent reason does not deliver morality only pure reason is capable of doing so. He trusts far more the common and untutored attitude of the masses to discover morality, a point to be made. But the charge is unfair, for Kant is very clear on this point, and he doesn’t expect the overly rational mind to be guided by towards moral rectitude, in fact the opposite. ![]() Otherwise it is likely to be dismissed, as it was by his disciple Hegel, as putting too much faith in reason to determine moral action. ![]() ![]() The best way to understand Kant’s Fundamental Principles of the Metaphysics of Morals (1785) is to read it as a continuation of the philosophy laid out in Critique of Pure Reason (1781). Kant: Fundamental Principles of the Metaphysics of Morals ![]()
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