Kant's Moral Theory and its Critics

Syllabus | Readings | Assignments | Handouts

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Readings

Christine Korsgaard, "Kant's Formula of Humanity", from Creating the Kingdom of Ends

Kant, "This fellow was quite black...a clear proof that what he said was stupid",
from Race and Enlightenment: A Reader

Thomas McCarthy, "Kant on Race and Development", from Race, Empire, and the Idea of Human Development

Thomas E. Hill, Jr. and Bernard Boxill, "Kant on Race", from Race and Racism

Assignments

1st Paper

2nd Paper

Final Paper

Handouts

Handout - Background to Kant's Ethics

Handout - Section One: Transition from the Common Rational Moral Cognition to the Philosophical Moral Cognition

Handout - How Does FUL/N (the formula of the universal law of nature) Generate Duties?

Handout - Formulations (Formulas) of the Categorical Imperative

Handout - Schopenhauer’s Many Criticisms of Kant’s Ethical Theory