The Apple of Kant's Ethics: i-Maxims as the Locus of Assessment
| dc.contributor.author | Kahn, Samuel | |
| dc.contributor.department | Philosophy, School of Liberal Arts | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2025-03-26T13:06:01Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2025-03-26T13:06:01Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2023 | |
| dc.description.abstract | I want to distinguish between maxims at three levels of abstraction. At the first level are what I shall call individual maxims, or i-maxims: maxim tokens as adopted by particular rational beings. At the second level are abstract maxims, or a-maxims: abstract principles distinct from any individual who adopts them. At the third level are maxim kinds, or k-maxims: sets of various action-guiding principles that are grouped on the basis of their content. In this paper, I argue for the thesis that i-maxims are the locus of assessment in Kant's ethics. | |
| dc.eprint.version | Final published version | |
| dc.identifier.citation | Kahn S. The Apple of Kant’s Ethics: i-Maxims as the Locus of Assessment. Pacific Philosophical Quarterly. 2023;104(3):559-577. doi:10.1111/papq.12422 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/1805/46614 | |
| dc.language.iso | en_US | |
| dc.publisher | Wiley | |
| dc.relation.isversionof | 10.1111/papq.12422 | |
| dc.relation.journal | Pacific Philosophical Quarterly | |
| dc.rights | Attribution 4.0 International | en |
| dc.rights.uri | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ | |
| dc.source | Publisher | |
| dc.subject | Maxims | |
| dc.subject | Rational beings | |
| dc.subject | Abstract principles | |
| dc.subject | Action-guiding principles | |
| dc.title | The Apple of Kant's Ethics: i-Maxims as the Locus of Assessment |