Kant and Aquinas on the priority of the good.(Immanuel Kant)(Thomas Aquinas)

From: The Review of Metaphysics | Date: June 1, 2002| Author: Hinton, Timothy | Copyright information

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THERE ARE SEVERAL STRIKING SIMILARITIES between the ethical views of Kant and Aquinas. Both attach great significance to the role of practical reason in ethical life; each believes that there is a fundamental principle of practical reason from which other principles or laws can be derived; both of them emphasize the importance of law in thinking about ethics; and each wants to claim that certain kinds of actions are good or evil in themselves.

Yet in spite ...

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