Immanuel Kant - Eastern Canada

Question

This philosopher argued that we undeniably know we are free and bound by a moral law, calling it a “fact of reason.” For 10 points each:

[10e] Name this philosopher who called his deontological ethics a dictate of “pure practical reason.” This philosopher developed transcendental idealism in Critique of Pure Reason.

ANSWER: Immanuel Kant

[10m] Kant’s “pure practical reason” allows derivation of the categorical imperative despite it being this sort of a priori truth that is not merely true by definition. According to Kant, “7 + 5 = 12” is an example of this sort of truth.

ANSWER: synthetic [accept synthetic a priori]

[10h] This philosopher argued that practical reason derives from our existence in society in the book Dependent Rational Animals. This Scottish philosopher argued that Enlightenment rationalists who tried to derive self-consistent morality were mistaken in After Virtue.

ANSWER: Alasdair MacIntyre

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