Kant and Schiller on Pure Ethics: Why Philosophers Should Concern Themselves with German Literature (and vice versa)

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In his book Kant's Impure Ethics, Robert Louden has definitively invalidated the traditional interpretation of a narrowly purist reading of Kant's ethics, assessing «the numerous pitfalls» associated with the very notion of  "empirical ethics" in Kantian philosophy, «with the aim of clarifying the meaning, role and status» of impure ethics and the importance of moral anthropology.3