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E-SÉMINAIRE : KANT ET LE PRIMAT DU DEVOIR (E-SEMINAR: KANT AND THE PRIMACY OF DUTY)
April 17, 2023 @ 9:00 am - June 12, 2023 @ 5:00 pm
E-SÉMINAIRE : KANT ET LE PRIMAT DU DEVOIR (E-SEMINAR: KANT AND THE PRIMACY OF DUTY)
DATE OF THE SEMINAR: April 17 to June 12, 2023
Course Code: SEM87
Professor: Dr Matthieu Dubost
PRESENTATION OF THE SEMINAR:
The approach proposed here will be articulated in four steps. If Kantian thought has often been criticized, it has often been done superficially and mainly by opposing it to the needs of subjectivity and the sensitive disappointments to which such a morality gave rise. Without neglecting these remarks, it is undoubtedly important first to note what in his doctrine can be accepted as necessary elements for any valid ethics. This reading will then have to distinguish the weak criticisms from those to which the Kantian edifice resists badly, and above all to note in Kant himself the tensions and weaknesses caused by the primacy of duty. This will give rise to a negative or critical demonstration of the insufficiency of Kantian duty as an exclusive basis for ethics. This will be our second step.
Our interest in more contemporary critiques will essentially lie in their more unitary conception of the person, a difficulty on which E. Kant stumbled. By aiming at a more dualistic anthropology, we will continue the critique started in the second stage while giving ourselves the means to go towards another morality.
It is then, in a fourth and final step, that we will take into account an “ethics of the conatus”, that of Ricoeur. We will discuss his ability to positively demonstrate the validity of an ethics of desire, or teleological ethics, which does not, however, claim to be an anthropology of desire. It will be necessary to discern what in him is a valid and argued answer to Kantian difficulties, from what is perhaps more properly a pre-philosophical choice with the weaknesses that this implies. This reading will also have to take into account the way in which one can situate duty within an ethics where it is not primary.
THE STAGES OF THE SEMINAR:
Stage 1: Kant – Foundations of the Metaphysics of Morals
Stage 2: Kant – “Dialectic of Pure Practical Reason”, Critique of Practical Reason
Stage 3: Hegel and Schiller
Step 4: Ricoeur
Registration fee: 350,00 €
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Website Seminar Link: https://www.domuni.eu/fr/formations/diplomes/kant-et-le-primat-du-devoir/