Lewis White Beck Quotes
Lewis White Beck was an American philosopher and the most influential English-language Kant scholar of his generation. After studies at Emory and Duke and a long teaching career at the University of Rochester, where he was Burbank Professor of Moral and Intellectual Philosophy, he produced the standard English-language commentary on Kant's second Critique in his A Commentary on Kant's Critique of Practical Reason and the anthology Kant: Selections, which made the central texts of the critical philosophy accessible to generations of students. The quotes below are attributed to Lewis White Beck, organized by topic.
Lewis White Beck on Truth
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Attributed to Lewis White Beck:
“Kant's critique of pure reason is the critique of metaphysics, not its dismissal.”
Lewis White Beck on Virtue
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Attributed to Lewis White Beck:
“Kant's moral philosophy is the most uncompromising defense of human dignity in philosophy.”
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Attributed to Lewis White Beck:
“The categorical imperative is the form of every moral act.”
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Attributed to Lewis White Beck:
“What Kant calls reverence is the proper feeling of a rational being for the moral law.”
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Attributed to Lewis White Beck:
“The dignity of the person is what no exchange can replace.”