Rationalizing Vernnfteln Martin Sticker by Martin Sticker 9781108714426, 1108714420 instant download after payment.

This Element takes on the assumption that for Kant, rationalizing only pertains to self-deception about one's motives and specific maxims. By drawing on the full breadth of examples of rationalizing Kant discusses, the author will show how rationalizing can also extend to general features of morality and corrupt rational agents thoroughly. Furthermore, they explain the often-overlooked roles common human reason, empirical practical reason and even pure practical reason play for rationalizing. Kant is aware that rationality is a double-edged sword: Reason is the source of morality and of our dignity, but it also enables us to seemingly justify moral transgressions to ourselves, and it creates an interest in this justification in the first place. Finally, the author discusses whether Kant is in a position to charge his philosophical opponents with presenting corrupting transformations of morality based on rationalizing, and whether, in turn, Kant can escape this charge if it is levelled against himself.