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      • Kant’s most distinctive contribution to ethics was his insistence that one’s actions possess moral worth only when one does his duty for its own sake. Kant first introduced this idea as something accepted by the common moral consciousness of human beings and only later tried to show that it is an essential element of any rational morality.
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  2. Jul 26, 2004 · In this article, we will focus on Immanuel Kant’s (1724–1804) work on the mind and consciousness of self and related issues. Some commentators believe that Kant’s views on the mind are dependent on his idealism (he called it transcendental idealism). For the most part, that is not so.

  3. Oct 22, 2024 · The present essay argues that a sound understanding of the latter topic is a precondition for making sense of Kant’s claims about self-consciousness, and that an understanding of the relation between these two topics is crucial to an appreciation of what is distinctive in his theory of cognition.

  4. Kant’s theory of pure apperception, or transcendental self-consciousness, 1 is a central element of his philosophy and has a long and complex history of interpretation. In the Deduction, Kant wants to explain what self-consciousness is and what function it has.

  5. Aug 17, 2020 · Kant is said to be the first to distinguish between consciousness of oneself as the subject of one’s experiences and consciousness of oneself as an object, which he calls transcendental and empirical apperception, respectively.

    • Janum Sethi
    • 2021
  6. Nov 29, 2017 · Transcendental apperception and self-consciousness. In §16 of the B-Deduction, as a first step in the argument toward the formulation of the conditions of possible knowledge, Kant elucidates his theory of self-consciousness.

    • Dennis Schulting
    • ds196901@gmail.com
    • 2017
  7. This book explores the consequences of Kant's view of the self and his contributions to our own understanding of the character (and limits) of self-knowledge. Salient aspects of Kant's positive theory of the self as it is presented in the Transcendental Deduction are discussed.

  8. In Kant and the Demands of Self-Consciousness, Pierre Keller examines Kant's theory of self-consciousness and argues that it succeeds in explaining how both subjective and objective experience are possible.

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