Taking ‘end’ seriously. Some remarks on the relation between Kant’s concept of an end and the end in itself
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 19555388 |
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| Authors | Rocco Porcheddu (0000-0002-1923-8671, University of Siegen) |
| Year | 2023 |
| Volume | 16 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 176-190 |
| Publication date | 2023-01-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Filosofskii Zhurnal (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2072-0726 • E-ISSN: 2658-4883 |
| Publisher | Institute of Philosophy, Russian Academy of Sciences (PUBLISHER • RU) |
| DOI | 10.21146/2072-0726-2023-16-2-176-190 |
| OpenAlex | W4388709337 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 6 |
The aim of the present paper is to show that a particular interpretation of the end in itself, which is widely accepted in research on Kant’s critical philosophy, is at least worth discussing. I refer to the interpretation of the end in itself as a so-called existing end, i.e., something for the sake of which we perform an action but which we do not realize – simply because it already exists. As I will argue, this interpretation does not take into account a crucial aspect of the end in itself, i.e., its property of being an end. Being an end, the end in itself must fit into the Kantian general definition of a practical end and must therefore be something to be realized
Dead end · End-to-end principle · Epistemology · Linguistics · Physics · Computer Science · Hannah Arendt's Political Philosophy · Philosophical Ethics and Theory · Philosophy · War, Ethics, and Justification · Artificial Intelligence
| Highly cited | No |
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