Lewis White Beck Quotes on Virtue
Lewis White Beck was an American philosopher and the most influential English-language Kant scholar of his generation. This page collects quotes attributed to Lewis White Beck on the topic of virtue, drawn from across the philosopher's works.
Quotes
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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.”
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“In the logic of science there is a principle as important as that of parsimony: it is that of sufficient reason. The former directs us to look for simplest causes, the later cautions us not to simplify so far that the explanation is inadequate to the facts to be explained....Parsimony is not itself a simple criterion of a good methodology; we cannot simply count the factors of explanation and say that the theory containing the smallest number is the best. The ideal of parsimony cannot be expressed without the proviso that the conditions for which it is a norm shall themselves be adequate.”
Lewis White Beck , The "Natural Science Ideal" in the Social Sciences (1949) , pp. 393-394