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- Title
The Moral Importance of Politeness in Kant's Anthropology.
- Authors
Frierson, Patrick
- Abstract
In his Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals (1784), Kant explains that ethics, like physics, ‘will have its empirical part, but it will also have a rational part, … though here [in ethics] the empirical part might be given the special name practical anthropology’ (4: 388). In the Groundwork, Kant suggests that anthropology, or the ‘power of judgment sharpened by experience’, has two roles, ‘to distinguish in what cases [moral laws] are applicable’ and ‘to gain for [moral laws] access to the human will’ (4: 389). Twelve years later, the first function, of applying the categorical imperative to specifically human situations, is incorporated into Kant's Metaphysics of Morals (1797).
- Publication
Kantian Review, 2005, Vol 9, p105
- ISSN
1369-4154
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1017/S1369415400002028