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Kant's Treatment of Animals

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 February 2009

Alexander Broadie  and
Elizabeth M. Pybus
Alexander Broadie
Affiliation:
University of Glasgow
Elizabeth M. Pybus
Affiliation:
University of Glasgow
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Some of the greatest writers on moral philosophy have claimed that their theories about morality do not run counter to the moral views of ordinary men, but on the contrary are an elucidation of such views, or provide them with a sound philosophical underpinning. Aristotle, for example, made it quite clear that he could not take seriously a moral view that was at odds with the heritage of moral wisdom deeply imbedded in his society. His doctrine of the mean was based on a philosophical consideration of such wisdom. And Immanuel Kant thought that his moral philosophy articulated the moral views of ordinary men.

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Philosophy , Volume 49 , Issue 190 , October 1974 , pp. 375 - 383
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Copyright © The Royal Institute of Philosophy 1974

References

1 For a detailed discussion of this proposition see: Broadie, A. and Pybus, E. M., ‘Kant's Concept of Respect’, Kant-Studien, forthcoming.Google Scholar

2 Paton, H. J., The Moral Law (London: Hutchinson 1966), pp. 90–91.Google Scholar

3 Ibid p. 91.

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12 Ibid., p. 240.

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