Concept
Practical philosophy
Overview
Practical philosophy concerns itself mainly with subjects that have applications in life, like the study of values, norms, politics, art, etc. The modern division of philosophy into theoretical philosophy and practical philosophy has its origin in Aristotle's categories of natural and moral philosophy. The one has theory for its object, and the other practice.
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The transition from the form of outward morals to morality as existent, is more important. As in Thales’ time, law-givers and administrators of states were preeminent in possessing a physical philosophy, so we see that with Pythagoras practical philosophy is advocated as the means of constituting a moral life. There we have the speculative Idea, the absolute essence, in its reality, and in a definite, sensuous…
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Hegel's Lectures on the History of Philosophy
States what Practical philosophy is; names Practical philosophy.
We proceed quite correctly if, as usual, we divide Philosophy, as containing the principles of the rational cognition of things by means of concepts (not merely, as logic does, principles of the form of thought in general without distinction of Objects), into _theoretical_ and _practical_. But then the concepts, which furnish their Object to the principles of this rational cognition, must be specifically distinct…
Immanuel Kant, Kant's Critique of Judgement
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In practical philosophy, i.e., that which has to do only with the grounds of determination of the will, the principles which a man makes for himself are not laws by which one is inevitably bound; because reason in practical matters has to do with the subject, namely, with the faculty of desire, the special character of which may occasion variety in the rule. The practical rule is always a product of reason, because…
Immanuel Kant, The Critique of Practical Reason
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Place in the tradition
Part of Chinese philosophy.