Kant, the Karamazovs, and Hitler’s Pawn: A Kantian Approach to Vicarious Responsibility / trans. from Engl. A. V. Nekhaev

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https://doi.org/10.25206/2542-0488-2024-9-4-99-109

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Kant’s ethics, responsibility for the consequences, vicarious responsibility, causal responsibility condition, overriding conditions.

Abstract

The article presents a reading of Kant’s ethics according to which (i) Kant not only affirms an responsibility for the consequences, but also responsibility for the consequences of others’ actions; (ii) this affirmation is consistent with very parts of Kant’s ethical doctrine that usually are cited as evidence against ascribing such a view to him; and (iii) these view can be given a plausible defense from within Kant’s ethical.

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Andrei Viktorovich Nekhaev, Omsk State Technical University

Doctor of Philosophical Sciences, Associate Professor, Professor of History, Philosophy and Social Communications Department, Omsk State Technical University, Omsk; Professor of Philosophy, Media and Journalism Department, Tyumen State University, Tyumen; Senior Researcher of the Laboratory of Logical and Philosophical Studies, Tomsk Scientific Center, Siberian Branch, Russian Academy of Sciences, Tomsk.

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2024-12-16

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Nekhaev А. В., & Kahn С. (2024). Kant, the Karamazovs, and Hitler’s Pawn: A Kantian Approach to Vicarious Responsibility / trans. from Engl. A. V. Nekhaev. Omsk Scientific Bulletin. Series Society. History. Modernity, 9(4), 99–109. https://doi.org/10.25206/2542-0488-2024-9-4-99-109

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Vol. 9 No. 4 (2024)

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Philosophy

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