Volume 5, Issue 4 (2025)
Geo Res 2025, 5(4): 1001-1023 |
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Received: 2025/11/4 | Accepted: 2025/12/2 | Published: 2025/07/1
Received: 2025/11/4 | Accepted: 2025/12/2 | Published: 2025/07/1
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Sarebannejad M. Phronesis and the Autonomy of the Will: A Comparative Study of the Moral Foundations in the Philosophy of Aristotle and Kant. Geo Res 2025; 5 (4) :1001-1023
URL: http://jpt.modares.ac.ir/article-6-82956-en.html
URL: http://jpt.modares.ac.ir/article-6-82956-en.html
Abstract (342 Views)
The concept of phronesis in Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics, as practical reason, functions as the connecting link between moral and intellectual virtues and represents wisdom oriented toward judgment in particular situations of human life. In contrast, Kant in the Critique of Practical Reason, through the principle of autonomy of the will, conceives reason as the source of moral law and the foundation of the subject’s self-sufficiency. This article, using a comparative approach, analyzes the conceptual relation between Aristotelian phronesis and Kantian autonomy, and, in light of Gadamer’s hermeneutical philosophy as a complementary theory, examines the possibility of a historical and situational interpretation of practical reason. The research method is qualitative and descriptive–analytical, based on direct study of the primary texts. It concludes that practical reason, across these three frameworks, evolves from lived wisdom to transcendental law and finally to historical understanding, establishing a dynamic link among Aristotle, Kant, and Gadamer.
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