Kant Can’t Get No... Contradiction
Philosophia (5):1-18 (2020)
Abstract
According to Kant, the universalization of the maxim of false promising leads to a
contradiction, namely, to everyone adopting the maxim of false promising which would
in effect make promising impossible. I first propose a reconstruction of Kant’s reasoning
in four steps and then show that each of these steps is highly problematic. In the
second part I argue that attempts by several prominent contemporary philosophers to
defend Kant fail because they encounter similar difficulties.
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