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Paul Guyer
Epistemology
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Freedom as an End in Itself: Fichte on Ethical Duties
Fichte’s System of Ethics was written independently of Kant’s Metaphysics of Morals, although inspired by Kant’s general approach to moral philosophy. Thus Fichte’s system of ethical duties parallels Kant’s rathe...
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The Infinite Given Magnitude and Other Myths About Space and Time
I argue that Kant's claim in the “Transcendental Aesthetic” of the Critique of Pure Reason that space and time are immediately given in intuition as infinite magnitudes is undercut by his general theory of mathem...
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Transcendental Idealism: What and Why?
Guyer argues that the traditional distinction between “one-world” and “two-world” interpretations of transcendental idealism is misleading; everyone has always recognized that there is a distinction between ou...
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Kant’s Legacy for German Idealism: Versions of Autonomy
One way to characterize Kant’s legacy to German Idealism would be to say that it is the respectability of the project of idealism itself. The early eighteenth-century idealism or “immaterialism” of George Berk...
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Kant’s Morality of Law and Morality of Freedom
Kant’s comments on moral philosophy prior to the Groundwork oftheMetaphysics ofMorals of 1785 include two striking claims. The first is the substantive claim that freedom is the source of all value—that it is int...
