Positive Economics From the Perspective of Kant's Thought

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Author(s): Ertuğrul İbrahim Kızılkaya (Istanbul University, Turkey)
Copyright: 2020
Pages: 15
Source title: Examining the Relationship Between Economics and Philosophy
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): Ilkben Akansel (University of Bartin, Turkey)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-7998-1037-7.ch007

Keywords: Business & Management / Business Science Reference / Economics & Economic Theory / Economics and Economic Theory

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Departing from Kant's thought, we could argue that the portrait of homo economicus drawn by positive economics corresponds to a homo phainomenon as a heteronomous person of concrete economic reality. In addition, we could try to show that economics could not get rid of naturalism, materialism, and fatalism, justifying Kant's concerns. We could also emphasize that, while in the beginning the aim of being a positive science to be able to produce synthetic a posteriori propositions, positive economics tried to continue its way by the method of synthetic a priori. Finally, we must also point out the possibility for an autonomous or free homo noumenon to establish an original ethos by setting goals for itself.

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