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Objective Imperatives

An Exploration of Kant's Moral Philosophy

By: Ralph C. S. Walker

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Objective Imperatives

An Exploration of Kant's Moral Philosophy

By: Ralph C. S. Walker

Kant held the moral law to be an objective imperative, an entity in its own right. It carries with it prescriptive force, in parallel to other principles of pure reason, like those of logic and mathematics. Objective imperatives therefore do not derive their authority from any other source,such as common consensus or the will of God. In Objective Imperatives, Ralph C. S. Walker seeks to show that this is a highly defensible view: Kant's Categorical Imperative, properly understood, is broadly right. The key to it is rationality, and not universality, which functions only as anapproximate test. Often, Kant sets the matter out badly, and most of the common objections to him can be shown to be due to misunderstandings. A morality that gives us an objective imperative does appear incompatible with the determinism to which Kant commits himself, but Walker argues that thisappearance is misleading.

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0192857061

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Kant-Arg Philosophers

By: Ralph C S Walker

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Kant-Arg Philosophers

By: Ralph C S Walker

First Published in 1999, Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

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The Coherence Theory of Truth

Realism, Anti-Realism, Idealism

By: Ralph C.S. Walker

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The Coherence Theory of Truth

Realism, Anti-Realism, Idealism

By: Ralph C.S. Walker

First published in 1988. Clarifies the coherence theory and critically discusses the standard objections to it as well as those who can be interpreted as advocating it. This book should be of interest to students of philosophy and epistemology and professional philosophers. In the view of the author, contemporary philosophy the coherence theory of truth occupies rather an odd position. On the one hand a number of textbook arguments against it are widely accepted, arguments which make it look as though the theory is hardly worth serious attention. On the other hand some of the principal currents of philosophical thought seem to be flowing away from the traditional conception of truth and towards a different conception, one which some of its supporters and some of its detractors have recognized as taking truth to consist in coherence. In the first two chapters the author tries to clarify what the coherence theory is (and is not), to show that it deserves serious attention, and to exhibit the pressures that can drive one towards it. Also attempted is to show how it relates to various other things that philosophers have said about truth, and also to idealism and anti-realism.

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Objective Imperatives

An Exploration of Kant's Moral Philosophy

By: Ralph C. S. Walker

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An Exploration of Kant's Moral Philosophy

By: Ralph C. S. Walker

Kant held the moral law to be an objective imperative, an entity in its own right. It carries with it prescriptive force, in parallel to other principles of pure reason, like those of logic and mathematics. Objective imperatives therefore do not derive their authority from any other source, such as common consensus or the will of God. In Objective Imperatives, Ralph C. S. Walker seeks to show that this is a highly defensible view: Kant's Categorical Imperative, properly understood, is broadly right. The key to it is rationality, and not universality, which functions only as an approximate test. Often, Kant sets the matter out badly, and most of the common objections to him can be shown to be due to misunderstandings. A morality that gives us an objective imperative does appear incompatible with the determinism to which Kant commits himself, but Walker argues that this appearance is misleading.

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The Coherence Theory of Truth

Realism, Anti-Realism, Idealism

By: Ralph C.S. Walker

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Realism, Anti-Realism, Idealism

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Kant-Arg Philosophers

By: Ralph C S Walker

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By: Ralph C S Walker

First Published in 1999, Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

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113629225X

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The Civil War

And American Iliad

By: Ralph G. Newman

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The Civil War

And American Iliad

By: Ralph G. Newman

The Civil War : An American Iliad gives us stories of the war in the participants' own words. Here is a panorama of characters. Generals, aid-de-camps, and foot soldiers; reporters, politicians and housewives rub shoulders in the pages of this book. per Amazon.

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0831713372

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Book's by Ralph C.S. Walker

Objective Imperatives

Objective Imperatives

Kant-Arg Philosophers

Kant-Arg Philosophers

The Coherence Theory of Truth

The Coherence Theory of Truth

Objective Imperatives

Objective Imperatives

The Coherence Theory of Truth

The Coherence Theory of Truth

Kant-Arg Philosophers

Kant-Arg Philosophers

The Civil War

The Civil War

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