Ep. 372: Kant's Ethics Lectures (Part One)

The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast

Mark Linsenmayer

Casey, Paskin, Philosophy, Linsenmayer, Society & Culture, Alwan

4.6 • 2.3K Ratings

🗓️ 28 July 2025

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

We discuss lecture notes from Kant's 1785 ethics course, which provide more examples and an emphasis on the practical than his more famous works.

For instance, we get more information on ethical motivation: How can the rational recognition of ethical principles lead to moral feelings?

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0:00.0	Hey everybody, I'm teaching a political philosophy class this fall over the internet, and you can attend.
0:05.3	Please go to partially examinedlife.com slash class for details. I will be opening enrollment pretty soon,
0:10.9	and I need to know now who's available when, so I know which sections to offer.
0:28.7	You're listening to the partiallyially Examine Life, a podcast by some guys who at one point said on doing philosophy for a living, but then thought better of it.
0:32.8	Our question for episode 372 is, what should we do?
0:36.8	We are at long last returning to read more of Kant's ethical works. This time his lectures on ethics given in 1784 and 1785,
0:42.2	as conveyed through the notes of his student, Georg Ludwig Collins.
0:46.5	This is Mark Linson Meyer in Madison, Wisconsin,
0:48.6	partaking of a table of food left in the forest.
0:53.4	Yeah, I wondered about that example.
0:56.0	This is Seth Paskin,
0:58.1	atypically being brought to a feeling of
1:01.7	importance for vice in Austin, Texas.
1:04.3	This is Wes Allwin, putting honor before love
1:06.9	in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
1:09.1	This is Dylan Casey,
1:10.4	just considering my duties to myself in Madison, Wisconsin.
1:13.8	Those are the most important duties.
1:15.8	We had gotten a suggestion from a listener many years ago that I think we, after we had initially
1:24.0	done our very early episode on Kant's ethics, whenever we would bring him up, we would refer to, oh, it's just all negative.
1:32.2	It's just all, he's just so prim.
1:34.0	He's just about what not to do.
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