TY - BOOK ID - 99995922 TI - Rationalizing (Vernünfteln) PY - 2021 SN - 1108625665 1108714420 1108788750 110878772X 9781108788755 9781108787727 9781108625661 PB - Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, DB - UniCat KW - Rationalization (Psychology) KW - Rationalism. KW - Kant, Immanuel, KW - Knowledge, Theory of KW - Religion KW - Belief and doubt KW - Deism KW - Free thought KW - Realism KW - Defense mechanisms (Psychology) KW - Excuses KW - Psychoanalysis KW - Kant, Immanuel KW - Kant, I. KW - Kānt, ʻAmmānūʼīl, KW - Kant, Immanouel, KW - Kant, Immanuil, KW - Kʻantʻŭ, KW - Kant, KW - Kant, Emmanuel, KW - Ḳanṭ, ʻImanuʼel, KW - Kant, E., KW - Kant, Emanuel, KW - Cantơ, I., KW - Kant, Emanuele, KW - Kant, Im. KW - קאנט KW - קאנט, א. KW - קאנט, עמנואל KW - קאנט, עמנואל, KW - קאנט, ע. KW - קנט KW - קנט, עמנואל KW - קנט, עמנואל, KW - كانت ، ايمانوئل KW - كنت، إمانويل، KW - カントイマニユエル, KW - Kangde, KW - 康德, KW - Kanṭ, Īmānwīl, KW - كانط، إيمانويل KW - Kant, Manuel, UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:99995922 AB - Kant was a keen psychological observer and theorist of the forms, mechanisms and sources of self-deception. In this Element, the author discusses the role of rationalizing/Vernünfteln for Kant's moral psychology, normative ethics and philosophical methodology. By drawing on the full breadth of examples of rationalizing Kant discusses, the author shows how rationalizing can extend to general features of morality and corrupt rational agents thoroughly (albeit not completely and not irreversibly). Furthermore, the author explains the often-overlooked roles common human reason, empirical practical reason and even pure practical reason play for rationalizing. Kant is aware that rationality is a double-edged sword; reason is the source of morality and of our dignity, but it also enables us to seemingly justify moral transgressions to ourselves, and it creates an interest in this justification in the first place. Finally, this Element discusses whether Kant's ethical theory itself can be criticised as a product of rationalizing. ER -