Abstract

CABRERA, Celia. Husserl’s Appropriation of the Categorical Imperative. arete [online]. 2017, vol.29, n.1, pp.29-58. ISSN 1016-913X.  http://dx.doi.org/http://doi.org/10.18800/arete.201701.002.

Husserl’s attempts to elaborate a formal ethics analogous to logic reaches its highest point in the formulation of a superior formal law of practice, i.e., the categorical imperative, considered by him to be the central problem in ethics. Such formulation constitutes the main core of a system that, at its most fundamental level, aims to determine the formal laws of correct action. In this framework, the aim of the paper is to determine the precise meaning, function and scope of the Husserlian appropriation of the categorical imperative and its relationship with its main reference in the elaboration of a formal ethics: Kantian ethics.

Keywords : phenomenology; Husserl; Kant; ethics; categorical imperative.

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