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Kant's Capacitism and Theory of Rationality

Digital Kant Lecture with Dietmar Heidemann

The Digital Kant Center NRW
is organizing its next Digital Kant Lecture. Dietmar Heidemann (University of Luxembourg) will give a lecture on the following topic: Kant's Capacitism and Theory of Rationality .

The lecture will take place online (via Webex). The language of the lecture will be English.

Webex link:

https://uni-siegen.webex.com/uni-siegen/j.php?MTID=mde073cbd52482c342d0005cdb3d8ac73

Abstract:

My overall project is to argue that in ethics, as in epistemology, Kant was a nativist who saw experience as awakening innate capacities that provide the basic structures that enable humans to understand the natural and social worlds. In this paper, I argue that the three formulae of the highest law of morality are not the products of convention, but of human predispositions, 'Anlagen.I do so by pursuing two questions about the formulae of the moral law: How is each formula derived from the concept of a categorical imperative? What is the argument for the truth of each formula?

Everything at a glance

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    Event date
    26.11.2025, 18:00 - 19:30

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    Venue
    online (Webex)

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    Event format
    Lecture

Further information

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    Speaker(s)
    Prof. Dr. Dietmar Heidemann

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    Organizer
    Digitales Kant-Zentrum NRW