Moral Philosophy, Kantian PhilosophyAmerican
Duty is the way reason exercises its dominion over us.
Christine Korsgaard is a prominent American philosopher and Arthur Kingsley Porter Professor of Philosophy Emerita at Harvard University, known primarily for her work in moral philosophy and her neo-Kantian reinterpretation of Kant's theory. By introducing the concept of 'practical identity' and offering a philosophical defense of the moral rights of animals, she has played a significant role in contemporary ethics.
