The background to Kant's Ethics

Published: Dec. 2, 2020, 4:20 a.m.

British Empiricism found a powerful voice in that of David Hume. Hume challenges our concepts of causality and ethical claims. For Hume, these concepts have no empirical grounding; they are not derived from sense data, rather our imagination. Kant was pushed to answer Hume, and does so in two books: A Critique of Pure Reason & A Groundwork of a Metaphysics of Morals.