Kant's Pragmatism
| dc.contributor.author | Henschen, Tobias | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2026-02-02T10:29:11Z | |
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| dc.date.issued | 2013-01 | |
| dc.description.abstract | This article offers a definition of the term ‘pragmatic’, as it is used in Kant's Critique of Pure Reason. The definition offered does not make any reference to the affinities between Kant's pragmatism and the philosophies of the American or other pragmatists but draws its definiens entirely from the Kantian conceptual framework. It states that the term ‘pragmatic’ denotes imperatives, laws and beliefs of a specific type: an imperative is pragmatic if and only if it is concerned with the choice of means to individual or universal happiness; a law is pragmatic if and only if our willingness to presuppose it results from our obedience to a pragmatic imperative; and a belief is pragmatic if and only if it relates to the objective validity of pragmatic laws. This article also discusses two rival definitions of the term ‘pragmatic’ (as used by Kant) that have been brought forward by Sidney Axinn and Nicholas Rescher. | |
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| dc.identifier.doi | 10.1080/09608788.2011.584519 | |
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| dc.language.iso | eng | |
| dc.subject | Kant | |
| dc.subject | pragmatism | |
| dc.subject | hypothetical imperative | |
| dc.subject | pragmatic imperative | |
| dc.subject | regulative hypotheses | |
| dc.subject.ddc | 100 | |
| dc.title | Kant's Pragmatism | eng |
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