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dc.contributor.authorNilsen, Fredrik
dc.date.accessioned2021-12-01T11:07:49Z
dc.date.available2021-12-01T11:07:49Z
dc.date.issued2021-06-15
dc.description.abstractIn his major works in ethics, Immanuel Kant (1724—1804) does not pay much attention to the question how humans become moral. The main tasks for Kant in these works are to establish the moral law and discuss its application. However, in his minor works in ethics and pedagogy he draws our attention to the question mentioned and claims that humans first become moral when they get 16 years old. Before we reach this age, our will (Willkür) is able to choose, that means prioritize, between rationality (the moral law) and sensitivity (inclinations), but our will (Wille) lacks the capacity to impose the moral law on ourselves. To evolve in this regard so that our will becomes fully moral and autonomous, we need moral restrictions from other people with more moral experience. The relevant Kantian distinction in this regard is the distinction Kant draws between persons and moral actors in the wake of his formula of the categorical imperative called the formula of humanity. According to this distinction, a person needs to be educated heteronomously in order to reach the level of moral actor and become autonomous. Constraint is therefore a necessary condition for self-constraint.en_US
dc.identifier.citationNilsen. Heteronomi som forutsetning for autonomi. 1700-tal: Nordic Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies. 2021en_US
dc.identifier.cristinIDFRIDAID 1962009
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.7557/4.5207
dc.identifier.issn1652-4772
dc.identifier.issn2001-9866
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10037/23233
dc.language.isonoben_US
dc.publisherSeptentrio Academic Publishingen_US
dc.relation.journal1700-tal: Nordic Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies
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dc.rights.holderCopyright 2021 The Author(s)en_US
dc.subjectVDP::Humanities: 000::Philosophical disciplines: 160en_US
dc.subjectVDP::Humaniora: 000::Filosofiske fag: 160en_US
dc.titleHeteronomi som forutsetning for autonomien_US
dc.type.versionpublishedVersionen_US
dc.typeJournal articleen_US
dc.typeTidsskriftartikkelen_US
dc.typePeer revieweden_US


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