5/22/2023 0 Comments Kantian ethics![]() ![]() ![]() Kant, living when reason was king in eighteenth-century Enlightenment Europe, proposed what he considered to be the one true ethical system-a system rooted in pure reason, without recourse to grounding morality in God, that sought to explain universal moral truth. ![]() The shortcomings of Kantian ethics serve as a signpost to the truth of Christian ethics.įew ethical systems have been as influential or as hotly debated in Western philosophy as the one proposed by Immanuel Kant. It then contends that Kant’s view of ethics fails to accomplish his desired objectives and makes the case that a biblical understanding of ethics succeeds. The article highlights three insightful objectives of Kant’s ethical view and compares them to three crucial ethical principles that are taught in the Bible. This article argues that Kant’s ethical system, despite grounding morality purely in reason and in light of its own philosophical failures, contains significant insights that serve to illuminate the philosophical attractiveness of key biblical ethical principles. Immanuel Kant proposed what he considered to be the one true ethical system-a system rooted in pure reason, without recourse to grounding morality in God, that sought to explain universal moral truth. ![]()
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