칸트에 있어서의 인격과 존엄성 그리고 자유 -스포츠 의무윤리의 정초-

Abstract

A lot of domestic and foreign journals have tried to apply Kant’s ethics to sports ethics. Particularly, they deal with various topics including his deontology, categorical imperative, and freedom. Having those theses as a precondition, this study intends to examine the matters of freedom, personality, and dignity as the grounds of moral law in Kant. In fact, traditionally, with the precondition that humans are rational, Kant sees that humans are the beings intrinsically equipped with personality, humanity as dignity, and voluntariness of freedom. Also, in Kant, the ultimate contact point of moral law is ego, that is an individual’s rationality. Since human rationality is naturally ethical, he tries to verify personality, dignity, and freedom are the grounds of moral law. In other words, as free begins, humans belong to the virtual world (intelligible world), and as autonomous beings, humans are free and self-conscious and are equipped with their own personality in that they are ethical beings. Also, the concept of dignity is associated with the principle of personality. Furthermore, the dignity of humans originated from the fact that human beings are equipped with absolute value. Moreover, Kant’s concept of freedom is the key to justify and explain the principle of autonomy and to verify the grounds of moral law by tracing and justifying the concept up to the roots of practical reason.