Ethics and Law in Paul Natorp

Paul Natorp (1854–1924) can be grouped with Cohen and Cassirer among the main exponents of Marburg neo-Kantianism.13 Natorp’s objective was to reformulate the rigid contraposition between rational forms of thought and their becoming outwardly concrete in life, such that the rational and the irrational “do not coincide in any absolute way: They neither remain rigidly extraneous to each other nor resolve themselves into each other but both live only in eternal compenetration” (Natorp 1923, 182; my translation)