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  • 1 - Hutcheson and Kant

  • Edited by Karl Ameriks
  • Otfried Höffe, Eberhard-Karls-Universität Tübingen, Germany
  • Book:
    Kant's Moral and Legal Philosophy
    Published online:
    13 November 2009
    Print publication:
    27 April 2009, pp 29-57

  • Summary

    This chapter presents the concrete form and full range of Immanuel Kant's critique of Francis Hutcheson. The trajectory of Kant's philosophy as expressed in his own writings must itself serve to explain why Kant himself, despite his repeated criticisms of Hutcheson, could still describe the basis of ethical consciousness as a sensus moralis, and that at a time when he had already discovered the formula of the Categorical Imperative. Kant's criticisms were directed exclusively against the specific form that the consequences of the theory of moral sense had assumed. Hutcheson shared Kant's conviction concerning the categorical character of moral obligation, and the concept of 'moral sense' clearly posed and revealed the problem of providing a satisfactory theoretical grounding for moral philosophy. Hutcheson had demonstrated the absolute impossibility of deriving the idea of 'the good' in terms of hypothetical or deductive logical reasoning.