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  • 4 - Making the law visible: the role of examples in Kant's ethics

  • Edited by Jens Timmermann, University of St Andrews, Scotland
  • Book:
    Kant's 'Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals'
    Published online:
    04 August 2010
    Print publication:
    24 December 2009, pp 63-81

  • Summary

    On Immanuel Kant's view, autonomy or self-legislation, that is, the capacity of rational beings to act in accordance with principles that they themselves create, is the supreme principle of morality (G IV 440) as well as the ground of the dignity of human nature and of every rational nature (G IV 436). Given Kant's specific and limited aim in the Groundwork, it is easy to see why he devotes so little discussion to the role of examples in ethics. In his Lectures on Pedagogy, the major theme of which is moral education, Kant also refers several times to the importance of examples in discussing ethics with children. The author shows that on Kant's view examples perform necessary and important functions throughout the moral life of all human beings, they are essential not only for children but for adults as well.