Kant used the synthetic method in generating a complex conceptual construction that, he claimed, matched people's ordinary intuitions about morality. This claim could be questioned, though whether or not it is true is ultimately not a philosophical issue. However we stand on it, Kant's effort may have a liberating effect, in giving us both a view of the human condition which makes it perpetually out of balance, never settling in inert complacency, and an understanding of how to proceed in an area of human concern when its basic principles are contradicted.
Keywords: synthetic, morality, liberation