Kant's Impure Ethics

by Robert B. Louden

"Contrary to widespread belief, Kant's ethics is not a formalist or purist program that regards empirical studies of human nature as unimportant for moral principles. Rather, Kant explicitly and repeatedly states that ethics properly consists of two parts: a pure, non-empirical part, in which the grounding a priori principles of the theory are to be located; and an impure, empirical part, which determines how best to apply pure principles to the human situation.". "Kant's Impure Ethics is the first book-length study to examine in detail and critically assess this second part of Kant's...

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