H. Cohen and E. Cassirer: the Foundations of Kant’s Ethics

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10.2991/iccessh-19.2019.13How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Kant’s critical ethics; the method of transcendental philosophy; neo-Kantianism of H. Cohen and E. Cassirer; freedom; autonomy; individual personality; philosophical ethics

Abstract

The subject for analysis in this article is the foundations of Kant’s ethics in the Neo-Kantian philosophy of the Marburg school. This article draws the parallel between the ethics of H. Cohen and P. Natorp. In contrast to E. Cassirer’s teachers, who defined ethics as an important part of philosophy, Cassirer did not write a separate work on ethics. Cassirer turns to Kant’s ethics not only with the purpose of revealing the special features of his own critical method, but mostly because he tries to reconstruct its original philosophical principles: the concept of autonomy, the concept of freedom and individual personality, which became the starting point for the system of ethical idealism. The boundary between the personal cognition and world conception lies between being and oughtness, the necessary and the possible. We can find the motives of Cassirer’s critical position in the late period of his creative work, when the philosopher reveals the transcendental history of the moral consciousness in “The Myth of the State”.

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© 2019, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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