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Nyholm, Sven ORCID: 0000-0002-3836-5932 (2015). KANT'S UNIVERSAL LAW FORMULA REVISITED. Metaphilosophy, 46 (2). S. 280 - 300. HOBOKEN: WILEY. ISSN 1467-9973

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Abstract

Kantians are increasingly deserting the universal law formula in favor of the humanity formula. The former, they argue, is open to various decisive objections; the two are not equivalent; and it is only by appealing to the humanity formula that Kant can reliably generate substantive implications from his theory of an acceptable sort. These assessments of the universal law formula, which clash starkly with Kant's own assessment of it, are based on various widely accepted interpretative assumptions. These assumptions, it is argued in this article, depend on misleading translations of key terms; selective attention to Kant's concrete examples; not taking seriously Kant's theoretical claims about the relations among his various ideas; and a failure to take into account Kant's idiosyncratic definitions of key concepts. The article seeks to right these interpretative wrongs, and finds that the universal law formula is not open to many of the standard objections.

Item Type:	Journal Article
Creators:	Creators Email ORCID ORCID Put Code Nyholm, Sven UNSPECIFIED orcid.org/0000-0002-3836-5932 UNSPECIFIED
URN:	urn:nbn:de:hbz:38-403289
DOI:	10.1111/meta.12125
Journal or Publication Title:	Metaphilosophy
Volume:	46
Number:	2
Page Range:	S. 280 - 300
Date:	2015
Publisher:	WILEY
Place of Publication:	HOBOKEN
ISSN:	1467-9973
Language:	English
Faculty:	Unspecified
Divisions:	Unspecified
Subjects:	no entry
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Keywords Language Philosophy Multiple languages
URI:	http://kups.ub.uni-koeln.de/id/eprint/40328