The Highest Good as the Ideal of Reason in the Canon of the first Critique
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 21355966 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Luigi Filieri (0009-0007-0934-9195, Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz Mainz Deutschland, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2024 |
| Volume | 115 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 24-45 |
| Publication date | 2024-03-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Kant-Studien (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0022-8877 • E-ISSN: 1613-1134 |
| Publisher | Walter de Gruyter GmbH (PUBLISHER • DE) |
| DOI | 10.1515/kant-2023-2009 |
| OpenAlex | W4319438983 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 24 |
In the Dialectic of the first Critique , Kant claims that a highest being is the transcendental ideal of speculative reason. However, the Canon of the Doctrine of Method presents the highest good as an ideal of both the speculative and the practical use of reason. In this paper, I argue (1) that the highest good is the ideal of the unity of reason – unlike the ideal in the Dialectic – insofar as (2) the highest good serves both the speculative and the practical employment of reason. Accordingly, I also argue that (3) these two employments are complementary, not alternative. Kant’s argument for the ideal of the highest good in the Canon shows that the unity of reason combines the two lawful employments of reason. In order to be reason’s highest ideal, this ideal cannot just mirror the demands of speculative reason – it must also involve the other fundamental employment of reason, i. e., the practical. This highest standpoint cannot be merely speculative but must be moral as well: not just a highest ideal, but also a good (the highest good)
Argument (complex analysis) · Dialectic · Doctrine · Economics · Epistemology · Form of the Good · Ideal (ethics) · Order (exchange) · Theology · Transcendental number · Philosophical Ethics and Theory · Philosophy · Seventeenth-Century Political and Philosophical Thought · War, Ethics, and Justification
Community and Progress in Kant's Moral Philosophy
The Appendix to the Dialectic and the Canon of Pure Reason
The Powers of Pure Reason
Autonomy After Auschwitz
The Demand for Systematicity and the Authority of Theoretical Reason in Kant
Happiness Proportioned to Virtue
Applying the Concept of the Good
The Determination of the Concept of the Highest Good
The Concept of the Highest Good in Kant's Moral Theory
Kant's Theory of Normativity
Das höchste Gut in Kants deontologischer Ethik
Two Conceptions of the Highest Good in Kant
Making Sense of Kant’s Highest Good
| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 1 |
| Citation span | 2026 - 2026 (1) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |