Empirical-analytical vs ontological-normative

external purposes; The practical reason can not be expressed or through analytical or explanatory trials or through synthetic judgments, since it does not say what happens in the experience, but what should happen in it. Thus, the shape of practical knowledge, not a trial, but an imperative.
the moral ideal is formed by categorical imperatives that originate in the moral will, an autonomous will. What Kant seeks to offer an ethics based on universal rational laws which determine the will and can not be sustained in the plurality of ends, since these vary and are contingent. Kant says it will develop a metaphysics of nature but of manners, because he refuses to take into account human nature and moral foundation. Kant's merit to have made explicit the form of moral imperatives against merely prudential maxims. Such success is enough to place among the greatest Kant. A recommended maximum, while a moral imperative applies to everyone equally.

ideas on ethics Kant His works are characterized by human freedom, for dignity of man and the fact that the moral obligation derived from reason, prosecuting confidence in the reason of getting to the bottom of all matters, done with the "Critique of Pure Reason" and "Critique of Practical Reason", the conclusion of the first is reason k has limits and can not know anything a priori from this experience, the limitations seem possible to understand the because freedom is the condition of possibility for the existence of moral judgments that we call ablas of what should be. The Ethics of Kant's formal because it ignores empirical evidence and is based exclusively on reason, it is a strictly rational ethics. In Kant found an elaborate attempt to justify the moral obligations of man, in concepts of pure reason is expressed through analytical and synthetic judgments judgments; Kant ethics prepares or supported by practical reason as radically rejects basing moral obligation on the nature of man, or the circumstances of the universe in which it is located, or However, subordinating it to