Kant’s Copernican Revolution in Epistemology and the Problem of Moral Permissibility of Lying

Abstract

The article examines the relationship of Kant’s epistemology and ethics. It is shown, that the position of Kant as a theorist of morality and the moralist, asserting, in particular, the idea of zero tolerance for lying, is ultimately the result of a erroneous interpretation of morality as a special sort of «knowledge» and, accordingly, a result of the illegitimate introduction into ethical discourse the apriorist and constructivist methodology (development of which Kant regarded as «Copernican revolution» in the theory of knowledge).