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Kantian theory |
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Kantian theory, the ethical theory of the 18th-century German philosopher Immanuel Kant. It focuses on the rightness or wrongness of actions in and of themselves, rather than on the consequences of those actions. According to Kant, the principles by which actions are judged right or wrong can be determined by reason, and the individual has a duty to act in accordance with these principles. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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| In particular, as suggested by the self-governing speaker of the poem I have just discussed, Dunbar turned to figures of bohemia when negotiating the proper stance of a racial-national bard and professional African American man of letters to the emerging modernist ideology of aesthetic autonomy, primed by the Kantian theory of disinterestedness and mainstreamed in the literary avant-gardism of Europe's nineteenth century. |
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