MORAL VALUE IN KANT
THE FIRSTSECTION OF THE GROUNDWORKFOR THE METAPHYSICS OF MORALS
Keywords:
Kant, moral value, action, duty, moral lawAbstract
In Kant's work the term value is used with great frequency and in fact it is not exclusive to the works of moral philosophy. Despite this fact, Kant has neither clearly nor sufficiently explained what this concept really means in his moral philosophy. In this paper I shall argue that Kant’s concept of value in the first Section of Groundwork of Metaphysics of Morals is relevant and strategical for clarifying his notion of moral action, but it plays just a secondary role in the whole argumentation of the Groundwork. This is the main reason why his ethics is not properly what we call a systematic theory of moral value. As we will see his concept of value is not placed before, upon or, maybe under that is, as the foundation of the validity of the moral law and of duty, but, on the contrary, it derives from the moral law and the categorical imperative.
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