Kant in metaethics

the paradox of autonomy, solved by publicity

Carla Bagnoli

pp. 355-377

in: The Palgrave Kant handbook, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan, 2017

Abstract

Bagnoli addresses Kant's importance for contemporary metaethics and defends Kantian constructivism as a plausible account of moral obligation. On this view, the appeal to normative principles is constitutive of the exercise of rationality in the sense that principles must be defensible to a plurality of agents; thus Kant is committed to a dialogical interpretation of autonomy.

Cited authors

Kant Immanuel