Imperative

• Main Author: Zupančič Žerdin, Alenka
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: Slovenian
• Published: ZRC SAZU, Založba ZRC 2016
• Subjects: categorical imperative; being; absolute; real; non-realised; kategorični imperativ; bit; absolut; realno; nerealizirano; sami
• Online Access: https://ojs.zrc-sazu.si/filozofski-vestnik/article/view/4212/3909; https://ojs.zrc-sazu.si/filozofski-vestnik/article/view/4212

The paper focuses on Kant’s formulation of the categorical imperative and on some of the paradoxes that different commentators have detected in it. It attempts to respond to these paradoxes by way of a reading of Kant that shifts the fundamental stakes of the formulation of the categorical imperative. It reads this formulation not as a criterion or test of morality, but as the inscription or formula of its paradoxical ontological (non)status. The impossibility of the moral dimension appearing in empirical reality as one positive entity among others is thus read as an ontological crack in empirical reality itself, that is to say, as its “real”. From this perspective, the split between what ought to be and what is appears as inherent to what is – as inherent to Being (as not consistent). Prispevek izhaja iz Kantove formulacije kategoričnega imperativa in nekaterih paradoksov, na katere so v zvezi z njim opozorili različni interpreti. Na te paradokse odgovarja z interpretativnim poskusom, ki premesti same zastavke formulacije kategoričnega imperativa. Premesti tako, da te formulacije ne bere kot kriterija ali testa moralnosti, temveč kot zapis, formulo njenega paradoksnega ontološkega (ne)statusa. Nemožnost moralnosti, da bi v realnosti nastopala enostavno kot pozitivna entiteta med drugimi, tako bere kot ontološko razpoko same empirične realnosti, kot njeno »realno«. V tej perspektivi se razcep med bitjo in najstvom pokaže notranji sami biti (kot nekonsistentni).