On a Bridge Connecting Kant and Moral Psychology

Abstract

In recent years, moral psychology has taken a great interest in Kant's practical philosophy and challenged its claims. The challenge can be divided into three types. (1) It misinterprets the rationalistic claims of Kant's practical philosophy and exposes the fallacies of those claims to the psychological findings of emotion. (2) It focuses on the justification procedure in Kant's practical philosophy and criticizes the procedure from the psychological perspective of intuition. (3) It takes a holistic view of Kant's practical philosophy and suggests that it contains theories that can be empirically explained by psychological findings. The purpose of this paper is to classify and validate these three types of claims.