Volume 1: After pointing out the errors involved in ethical naturalism, the author proceeds to refute Kant's teaching that the moral law, because discerned a priori, issues from Reason and is a self-legislation of the rational will. Against this view Plato's position is upheld, that all values and the Ought constitute an objective, absolute realm of essences which man discovers a priori, but which no more emanate from Reason than do the principles of mathematics and logic.

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Utgivningsdatum2002-08-29
Mått138 x 216 x undefined mm
Vikt810 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor350
FörlagTaylor & Francis Ltd
ISBN9780415295703

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