Date of Award
Summer 8-9-2022
Degree Type
Thesis
Degree Name
Master of Arts (MA)
Department
Philosophy
First Advisor
Juan S. Piñeros Glasscock
Second Advisor
Christie Hartley
Abstract
There is an ambition to conceive of the human being as a composite of perceptual and desiderative faculties belonging to a causal order and a rational faculty belonging to a normative order. The problem is that this conception is unstable: If we locate the perceptual/desiderative faculties in a causal order, no room is left for the rational faculty. Consequently, to conceive the human being in full, one must alternate between two different points of view. In this paper, I argue that the solution is to reevaluate how we think about causes and norms: To say something is determined by causes is not just to locate it within a causal order but is more fundamentally to exclude it from our evaluative practices. Further, to say something is constrained by norms is not just to identify a set of evaluative practices but is more fundamentally to include it in our evaluative practices.
DOI
https://doi.org/10.57709/29327371
Recommended Citation
Kennelly, Nikolaus, "A Practical Conception of the Kantian Bifurcation." Thesis, Georgia State University, 2022.
doi: https://doi.org/10.57709/29327371
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