What is "kantian"

Usage examples of "kantian".

Bretschneider, who has set on foot the best inquiry on this point, says that the word Rationalism has been confused with the word Naturalism since the appearance of the Kantian philosophy, and that it was introduced into theology by Reinhard and Gabler.

The Kantian moment is the link between the two: it is the discovery that the subject, in so far as he is reasonable, applies to himself his own law, which is the universal law.

We could say, in Kantian fashion, that our internal moral disposition, when it is confronted with and tested in the social order, tends to be determined by the ethical, political, and juridical categories of Empire.

This is the leitmotif of Kantian philosophy: the necessity of the transcendental, the impossibility of every form of immediacy, the exorcism of every vital figure in the apprehension and action of being.

This transcendent political apparatus corresponds to the necessary and ineluctable transcendent conditions that modern philosophy posed at the pinnacle of its development, in Kantian schematism and Hegelian dialectics.

Outside every Enlightenment cloud or Kantian reverie, the desire of the multitude is not the cosmopolitical state but a common species.

They could, of course, have been genuine salon intellectuals who sought no more of life than the opportunity to discuss Proust and Stendhal, Hegelian and Kantian philosophies.

The inevitable consequence is that we imprison ourselves hopelessly in the affirmation of Kantian relativism.

Kant or John Stuart Mill in a book that expounded and de-fended the Kantian or utilitarian position in moral philosophy, it would be received without raised eyebrows or shaking heads.

A, at one and the same time and in the same sense, is and is not B, from which no escape is available, but through a Kantian solution.

Though he opposed the Kantian philosophy, because of its petrifying tendency, his antagonism was counteracted by others of the Weimar celebrities.

Nevertheless, Coleridge was not mentally adapted to the Kantian system.

This work, based on the Kantian philosophy, denies future recognition.

Sartre accepts the Kantian imperative which advises us to treat men as ends, not as means, he points out that, in practice, ethical action entails the treatment of men as means.

By the end of act two, the Kantian categorical imperative has taken hold, and the crew starts behaving decently again.