Kantianism
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- noun
- /ˈkæn.ti.ən.ɪ.zəm/
- New medical treatments emerged in the 1960s, posing questions that were hard to answer with the abstract classical ethical theories like Kantianism and utilitarianism.
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For instance, compare some virtue theories, traditional consequentialist views, particularism, and old-fashioned Kantianism.
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Some might object to this procedure because Maritain presents himself as a Thomist and an opponent of Kantianism.
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Isn't this good old Kantianism?
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It is Kantianism and its successors that have retreated into idealism.
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When we dissect the notion of the exalted individual, we find an interesting mixture of Kantianism and Christianity, flavored with a heavy dose of existentialism.
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With this move, Maritain has spun an apparently seamless web of Thomism and Kantianism—of Christian natural law and modern natural rights—in his concept of the human person.
Academic text (1998)
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Etymology
Kantianism comes from the name Kant and the endings -ian ('belonging to') and -ism ('a system or belief'), like in Marxism or Christianity. So Kantianism means the set of ideas that belong to the philosopher Immanuel Kant, which is why we use it for his philosophical system.