Some Contemporary Issues about Ought Implies Can: Where Does Kant Fit in?
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Some Contemporary Issues about Ought Implies Can: Where Does Kant Fit in?
Jahrbuch Recht und Ethik, Vol. 31(2023), Iss. 1 : pp. 187–208
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Samuel Kahn
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Most philosophers agree that Kant has prescribed the principle of "should be implied", or "Ought Implies can" (OIC). However, only a few agree on how to understand the meaning of OIC. Outside of Kant science, there are debates about the importance of "should", the meaning of "implied" and the meaning of "ability" in this principle. There is no consensus within Kant research about what Kant thought on these topics. In this article I try to improve this situation. In section I, I check the secondary literature on Kant's commitment to OIC and explain where the interpretation goes wrong in my opinion. In section II, I examine some of the direct evidence of the fact that Kant is attributed to a certain version of OIC. In Section III I explain what, in my opinion, the most important doctrinal reasons for this are to attribute this version of OIC.
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| Section Title | Page | Action | Price |
|---|---|---|---|
| Samuel Kahn: Some Contemporary Issues about Ought Implies Can: Where Does Kant Fit in? | 187 | ||
| I. Why I think Current Readings of Kant on OIC are Mistaken | 187 | ||
| 1. Korsgaard | 188 | ||
| 2. Herman | 190 | ||
| 3. Kohl | 192 | ||
| 4. Stern | 196 | ||
| 5. Interim Conclusion | 198 | ||
| II. Direct Textual Support | 198 | ||
| III. Indirect Doctrinal Support | 204 | ||
| Conclusion | 207 | ||
| Zusammenfassung | 207 |