Ideas from 'Critique of Practical Reason' by Immanuel Kant [1788], by Theme Structure

[found in 'Critique of Practical Reason (Third edition)' by Kant,Immanuel (ed/tr Beck,Lewis White) [Library of Liberal Arts 1993,0-02-307753-0]].

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1. Philosophy / A. Wisdom / 1. Nature of Wisdom

6200	Wisdom is knowing the highest good, and conforming the will to it

1. Philosophy / D. Nature of Philosophy / 3. Philosophy Defined

6207	What fills me with awe are the starry heavens above me and the moral law within me

1. Philosophy / D. Nature of Philosophy / 5. Aims of Philosophy / e. Philosophy as reason

6184	Consistency is the highest obligation of a philosopher

1. Philosophy / E. Nature of Metaphysics / 5. Metaphysics beyond Science

6203	Metaphysics is just a priori universal principles of physics

10. Modality / C. Sources of Modality / 1. Sources of Necessity

6181	Necessity cannot be extracted from an empirical proposition

20. Action / B. Preliminaries of Action / 2. Willed Action / a. Will to Act

6183	Can pure reason determine the will, or are empirical conditions relevant?

6191	The will is the faculty of purposes, which guide desires according to principles

20. Action / C. Motives for Action / 3. Acting on Reason / a. Practical reason

6190	The sole objects of practical reason are the good and the evil

22. Metaethics / A. Ethics Foundations / 2. Source of Ethics / b. Rational ethics

18235

Only human reason can confer value on our choices [Korsgaard]

22. Metaethics / A. Ethics Foundations / 2. Source of Ethics / h. Expressivism

6196	People cannot come to morality through feeling, because morality must not be sensuous

22. Metaethics / B. Value / 1. Nature of Value / f. Ultimate value

18675

Kant may rate two things as finally valuable: having a good will, and deserving happiness [Orsi]

22007

An autonomous agent has dignity [Würde], which has absolute worth [Pinkard]

18234

The good will is unconditionally good, because it is the only possible source of value [Korsgaard]

6192	Good or evil cannot be a thing, but only a maxim of action, making the person good or evil

22. Metaethics / C. The Good / 1. Goodness / g. Consequentialism

6197	Morality involves duty and respect for law, not love of the outcome

22. Metaethics / C. The Good / 2. Happiness / a. Nature of happiness

6193	Our happiness is all that matters, not as a sensation, but as satisfaction with our whole existence

1452	Happiness is the condition of a rational being for whom everything goes as they wish

22. Metaethics / C. The Good / 2. Happiness / c. Value of happiness

1454	Morality is not about making ourselves happy, but about being worthy of happiness

23. Ethics / C. Virtue Theory / 1. Virtue Theory / a. Nature of virtue

6194	The highest worth for human beings lies in dispositions, not just actions

6198	Virtue is the supreme state of our pursuit of happiness, and so is supreme good

23. Ethics / C. Virtue Theory / 2. Elements of Virtue Theory / c. Motivation for virtue

1456	Moral law is holy, and the best we can do is achieve virtue through respect for the law

23. Ethics / D. Deontological Ethics / 3. Universalisability

6185	No one would lend money unless a universal law made it secure, even after death

6187	Universality determines the will, and hence extends self-love into altruism

23. Ethics / D. Deontological Ethics / 5. Persons as Ends

6201	Everyone (even God) must treat rational beings as ends in themselves, and not just as means

23. Ethics / D. Deontological Ethics / 6. Motivation for Duty

6186	A holy will is incapable of any maxims which conflict with the moral law

6195	Reason cannot solve the problem of why a law should motivate the will

25. Social Practice / F. Life Issues / 4. Suicide

6188	A permanent natural order could not universalise a rule permitting suicide

28. God / A. Divine Nature / 6. Divine Morality / b. Euthyphro question

6199	Obligation does not rest on the existence of God, but on the autonomy of reason

28. God / B. Proving God / 2. Proofs of Reason / c. Moral Argument

1453	We have to postulate something outside nature which makes happiness coincide with morality

1455	Belief in justice requires belief in a place for justice (heaven), a time (eternity), and a cause (God) [PG]

28. God / B. Proving God / 3. Proofs of Evidence / a. Cosmological Proof

6205	To know if this world must have been created by God, we would need to know all other possible worlds

28. God / B. Proving God / 3. Proofs of Evidence / c. Teleological Proof critique

6204	Using God to explain nature is referring to something inconceivable to explain what is in front of you

6206	From our limited knowledge we can infer great virtues in God, but not ultimate ones

28. God / C. Attitudes to God / 4. God Reflects Humanity

6202	In all naturalistic concepts of God, if you remove the human qualities there is nothing left