The Metaphysics of Morals

The aim of this project is to develop a critical research of the Metaphysik der Sitten (1797-8), where the Kantian practical philosophy reaches, in the words of A. Wood, its “final form”. The main object that guides this project consists in specifying the features of the new architectonic form of Kant’s practical philosophy, as well as the proper features of the two Doctrines in which it is divided (v. gr., Rechtslehre – political and juridical philosophy - and Tugendlehre- ethics).

Members: Dra. Macarena Marey (Director), Lic. Marcos Thisted, Dr. Hernán Pringe, Fiorella Tomassini, Hugo Figueredo Núñez, Pablo Moscón, Federico Curutchet, Ana Inés Dutari, Nicolás Vila.

With this goal as guidance to the study of the MS, our group will develop different lines of work in order to support a series of hypothesis concerning its main topics, namely: a) The independence of Kant’s practical-juridical philosophy with regard to his Ethics, b) the understanding of the Kantian political proposal as one which both continues and goes beyond some of the central tenets advanced by Modern natural law theories as well as by Rousseau’s political thought, c) the understanding of Kantian Ethics as based upon a supreme “material” principle (“humanity as an end in itself”), in contradistinction to its formalistic-procedural interpretation, and, lastly, d) the need to understand Kant’s practical philosophy in its systematicity.

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