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| Goals, philosophy: a goal is an unrealized state, which is striven for by a positive idea. Some authors assume that even higher animals can have goals. In idealistic philosophy there is the thesis that history as a whole has a goal. See also psychology, pragmatism, history, teleology, fatalism._____________Annotation: The above characterizations of concepts are neither definitions nor exhausting presentations of problems related to them. Instead, they are intended to give a short introduction to the contributions below. – Lexicon of Arguments. | |||
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Immanuel Kant on Goals - Philosophy Dictionary of Arguments
I 119 Purpose/Aim/Nature/Kant: Presentation of purposes: a heuristic principle - we consider them as if they would be appropriate, even if purpose is just a term of us - two principles: necessary as objects of reason (natural whole as a system) - contingent: according to mechanical laws - but the two principles are not mutually exclusive. - - - Kant, Ausgabe der Preußischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Berlin 1900ff, AA IV, 433 / GMS, BA 74-75. Kant: People are ends, not means._____________Explanation of symbols: Roman numerals indicate the source, arabic numerals indicate the page number. The corresponding books are indicated on the right hand side. ((s)…): Comment by the sender of the contribution. The note [Author1]Vs[Author2] or [Author]Vs[term] is an addition from the Dictionary of Arguments. If a German edition is specified, the page numbers refer to this edition. |
I. Kant I Günter Schulte Kant Einführung (Campus) Frankfurt 1994 Externe Quellen. ZEIT-Artikel 11/02 (Ludger Heidbrink über Rawls) Volker Gerhard "Die Frucht der Freiheit" Plädoyer für die Stammzellforschung ZEIT 27.11.03 |
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Ed. Martin Schulz, access date 2021-01-28