The Moral Image in Kant

In the first Critique, Kant attempts to demonstrate that, for our theoretical cognition, there is a necessary connection in forms between outer and inner objects on the one hand and our cognitive power. Dieter Henrich contends that a similar challenge to Kant needs to be addressed in the moral context. In this paper, I elaborate on Henrich's arguments by comparing Kant's arguments in theoretical and practical cognition, showing the importance of developing a moral image in Kant. The development of the Kantian moral image can be seen as an indispensable thread that weaves up different stages of Kant's philosophy, up to his writings in his last years, collected in the so-called Opus Postumum.