Kant's "deduction" in the "Grundlegung"

Brendan A. Liddell

pp. 401-406

in: Lewis White Beck (ed), Proceedings of the Third international Kant congress, Berlin, Springer, 1972

Abstract

In Section III of the Grundlegung, Kant argues for freedom as the necessary presupposition for moral law, insisting that freedom is indeed possible as the foundation for the categorical imperative. Kant's argument is in two parts. The first of these occurs in the sub-section: "We Must Assume That the Will of Every Rational Being is Free", the argument that whenever we will we must think ourselves to be free agents.

Cited authors

Kant Immanuel