Kant’s Critique Of Individualism And Moral Epistemology

Individualism, political, social and moral philosophy, emphasizing the importance of personal freedom and personal, as well as "the virtue of self-independence","personal independence" is an individual-centered society or others treat ideological and theoretical point of view. In the history of Western individualism, Kant plays an important role. Kant with individual absolute reason to oppose God-centered, God-center of the world, religious control everything society, stressed people-oriented, center man of the world, the person making the world’s most precious creation, man is man the starting point and goal of all activities.Kant’s moral philosophy is undoubtedly progressive history, but implicit in Kant’s moral philosophy epistemological individualism, and personal epistemology and provides a theoretical basis for the moral individualism, the latter is one of corrosive damage to social cohesion. Therefore, Kant’s moral philosophy to reveal personal epistemology, not only theoretical significance, but also has practical significance. With the European Renaissance and Enlightenment, but also the rise of individualism, the Kant also inevitably affected by individualism. Individualism is the ultimate purpose of advocating individual community, opposed to the people as a means of Kant, who advocated a purpose; individualism advocated individual responsibility for their actions, Kant legislative advocate for themselves. Kant’s parents are devout Christians, Christian ethics inevitably same body lay in Kant mark, replacing the rational use of Kant but God only.Kant’s moral and epistemological individualism performance characteristics to be regarded as an abstraction from the social and collective individuals who ignore the social and historical. Seen as an abstract moral rational people for their own legislation, ignoring the moral as an ideology, with social and historical characteristics. Kantian deontology rational individuals from starting the construction, from the social and collective, will be excluded from the majority of the value of human moral values. Since Kant’s deontological away from the social and collective, and thus will not be able to solve complex social reality of moral conflict. To this end, we must go beyond Kant’s ethical theory, in particular, to transcend individualism moral epistemology.Western society has experienced a holism to individualism by a process of evolution, promoting individualism of modern Western civilization contributed. But the result of the proliferation of Western individualism at the expense of the collective value of the consideration for, and the personal attention is the matter of rights and achieve their own material interests, while ignoring their own spiritual realm and the improvement of quality culture, which inevitably brings a heavy social crisis. With the advance of China’s socialist market economy, individualism began to rise, and even flooding potential. Ours is a traditional collectivism as the core of society, but is an underdeveloped social market economy. How to play the advantages of the socialist market economy collectivism, individualism prevent flooding, rampant individualism of Western society to avoid the negative effect is in front of us a major issue.Multiple collectivism precisely compensate for its loss, pluralistic collectivism that is a combination of theory and methods in line with a moral system established to promote traditional and modern, ideal and reality produce, thus promoting the moral system build process, thus preventing individualism flooding, promote the establishment of comprehensive, coordinated and sustainable development of society, so that it can better guide the contemporary moral system, to promote harmony and development of the whole society.