Kant on the Sensual and Rational Factors of Human Actions: A Рsychological and Transcendental Analysis

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https://doi.org/10.18523/2313-4895.11.2024.1-18

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Immanuel Kant, transcendental, dogmatism, critical philosophy, human actions, determination, stimuli, affects, passions, motives, categorical imperative, evil, freedom

Abstract

The article examines Immanuel Kant’s psychological and transcendental analysis of the factors that determine human actions in different ways and with different strengths. Based on the works, in particular, Critique of Pure Reason, Critique of Practical Reason, and Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals, as well as lecture notes and notes of the German philosopher, it was possible to study the interaction between the sensual determination of human actions – stimuli, affects and passions, and the rational determination of human actions-motives, imperatives, and freedom. We investigate how Immanuel Kant preserves the basic meaning of freedom in the interweaving and interaction of various factors that significantly influence human actions.

Author Biography

Viktor Kozlovskyi, National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy

Viktor Kozlovskyi is an Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies, National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy. He holds a PhD in Philosophy from the Institute of Philosophy named after H. S. Scovoroda of the National Academy of Science of Ukraine of Kyiv. His research focuses on the systems of German idealism, Kant’s philosophy, anthropology, social philosophy, and the theory of liberalism. Viktor Kozlovskyi is а member of the Kant Society in Ukraine, author of numerous works devoted to the analysis of the philosophical teachings of Kant and his followers, in particular the monograph «Kant’s Anthropology: Sources, Constellations, Models» (in Ukrainian; 2014 – first edition; 2023 – second edition).

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2024-12-30

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Kozlovskyi, V. (2024). Kant on the Sensual and Rational Factors of Human Actions: A Рsychological and Transcendental Analysis. Kyiv-Mohyla Humanities Journal, (11), 1–18. https://doi.org/10.18523/2313-4895.11.2024.1-18

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No. 11 (2024): Kant Studies in Ukraine: History and Modernity (to Kant’s 300th Anniversary)

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