ABSTRACT
Kant's conception of the Ought in this respect only follows the general trend of his philosophy. According to this, everything which has the character of a principle inheres in the subject. Subjectivism in ethics stands nearer to the fact than it does in the domain of theory. Its main root accordingly lay for Kant in ethics. Its chief concern is the freedom of the will. The concept of the aprioristic does not coincide with that of origin in reason. The alternative is false, the disjunction not complete. But with it the conclusion falls away. It is a false inference. In fact here lies the pivot of Kantian subjectivism. It is no ordinary subjectivism; it rests ultimately upon the aprioristic wholly. Kant was not in a position to picture to himself an a priori which did not subsist in a function of the subject.
