Ethics

Moral laws

pp. 215-245

in: Zehou Li, A new approach to Kant, Berlin, Springer, 2018

Abstract

Ethics is another component of the Kantian philosophical system. In the course of developing his ideas, Kant's inquiry shifted from Newton to Rousseau, from natural science and its philosophical significance to the spiritual world of humankind. In constructing the critical philosophy, Kant placed ethics on a higher plane than epistemology, although the latter is the starting point of his philosophy.