The Theory And Influences Of Kant's Telford Relations

In this article, the subject is the relationship between morality and happiness of Kant's moral philosophy.The first part focuses on the analysis of the reasons that why Kant raised the relationship between morality and happiness:Kant found two popular theories which were Empiricism Happiness and Rationalism Happiness. Not as they had said, the claims could achieve the unity of the people's moral ideals and moral emotion by emotionalism or rationalism, namely, the unity of morality and happiness. And how people can return to the moral ideal? With this question, Kant put forward his own unique Telford relations theory on the basis of the theoretical criticism to the Empiricism and Rationalism.The second part focuses on the main content of Kant's Telford relations theory: Because of the dualistic character of world and man, the moral which belongs to the rational noumenal world and the happiness which belongs to the sensuous phenomenal world have different contents deeply. It leads to the opposition and conflict between moral and happiness. In order to resolve the conflict between moral and happiness and achieve the unity of them, namely, "The Highest Good", Kant also made his famous hypothesis of "immortal soul" and "God exist" to resolve the question.The third part comments on the influences of Kant's Telford relations theory: Hegel against Kant for his being completely out of experiential content. He stressed that the experiential factors in moral and criticized Kant's moral law and moral hypothesis which have only form but no content. Schopenhauer agreed with the Happiness Research of Kant's moral philosophy, but at the same time he thought the theory was meaningless in the real world. In the end, he created a genre of Western moral philosophy----Sympathy Ethics through critique on Kant. Adorno wrote a book whose name was "The problem with Moral Philosophy "to understand Kant's "The Highest Good" better, he believed that we could not ask people to have complete pure morality, and we should rule the minimum moral to let people comply, namely "Minimum Moral".