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...Stephen Eric Bronner Abstract The influence of philosophical idealism on critical theory is often taken for granted, but it has rarely been the subject of scrutiny. This paper attempts to explore the logic of idealism—as it developed from Kant, to Fichte and Schelling, Hegel, and the young Marx...

... being understood,' its strategic and institutional importance for a Rawlsian approach needs further elaboration. For Rawls, drawing on Kant, moral personality is based on two fundamental powers or capacities, described as the reasonable and the rational. The reasonable is associated with conceptions...

.... The picture that Schiller sketches of an unbowed humanity amidst the ruins of history captures the vision of the sublime put forward by Immanuel Kant. For Kant, the confrontation with terror is not an occasion for despair but a sublime awakening of our consciousness to the capacity of human beings to act...

... on these questions by providing a brief study of "critical" disciplinary reorganizations, with greater attention to the Caucus for a New Political Science and its journal, New Political Science. Introduction Our age is, in especial degree, the age of criticism, and to criticism everything must submit.-Immanuel Kant...

... critics who said that he had a simplistic notion of reflection combining the self-reflection of Kant's transcendental subject (epistemology) with the critical reflective praxis of Marx's revolutionary subject. Some of the other critiques made against the work include the development of a theory which...

... philosopher Immanuel Kant nearly anticipated the plot lines of Project Nim and Rise of the Planet of the Apes in a footnote to his book Anthropology from a Pragmatic Point of View (1798). Kant speculates in passing about a "third era" of human social-cultural development. This would follow a first epoch...

... and stupid and to be savages dominated by their passions and in need of benevolent intervention in the form of schooling, religious conversion, and discipline (Eze 1997). 2 Immanuel Kant’s 1798 Anthropology from a Pragmatic Point of View , for example, was based on the presumed intellectual...

... that at least some of these arrows will strike the target. Peace and Delllocracy: Which Ends Justify Which Means? Nadia Urbinati COlll111bia University, USA Kant's Maxim In stretching Immanuel Kant's maxim to make it applicable to democracy, Michael Doyle, years ago, made popular the idea that if all states...

... of bourgeois liberalism. Patricia Moynagh reflects on her former teacher's strategies for dislocating bourgeois liberalism by making capitalism's cruelties visible as well as by plumbing religious traditions to ground politics in love. Ralph Hummel looks to Kant's idea of paradox, coining the term "paradoxy...

... of philosophy is indeed "unscientific" and inexact-as is the human reality! The philosophical method includes such "inexact"faculties as the imagination. @480 H. MARCUSE Kant, not really a very wild philosopher, defined the imagination as the"central faculty of the mind": a source of a priori, universally valid...

..., the principle of metaphysics. The history of philosophy from Descartes to Nietzsche traces a path of ascent whereby metaphysics attains its ultimate accomplishment as the metaphysics of subjectivity. With this perspective on the history of philosophy and placing in line the thinking of Descartes, Leibniz, Kant...

... theoretical conceptualizations of autonomy, found in thinkers such as Rousseau, Mill, and Kant, into conversation with more contemporary thinkers like Foucault and Levinas. Using four excellent examples (adolescent sexuality, the drug war, animal rights, and endurance athletes), Rasmussen looks at how...

.... In particular, Bronner attempts to develop a non-teleological socialist theory that is sensitive to the contingencies of social reality, and asserts the need for concrete political intervention guided by a new "socialist ethic." Seeking to merge the critical perspectives Marx and Kant, Bronner attempts...

... of the political concept of autonomy with the welcome addition of Rasmussen's au courant examples, and her enlightening discussion on post-foundationalist theories. Rasmussen puts classical political theoretical conceptualizations of autonomy, found in thinkers such as Rousseau, Mill, and Kant, into conversation...

... is his definition of liberty as, " obedience to a law which we prescribe to ourselves (1950, p. 19). Translators (e.g. 1978, p.56) who render Rousseau's French literally in the third person indefinite singular (viz. " obedience to a law which one prescribes to oneself are not only reading Kant's...

... have to accept to make sense of the idea of reaching understanding. Are there unavoidable conditions we must accept when we "perform, understand, or respond to a speech act16 This approach, which forms the core of universal pragmatics, is not identical to Kant's analysis of the transcendental...

.... Simply put, for Aristotle, responsible actors are those who can be said to have voluntarily caused or made something happen in the world. Aristotle, The Nicomachean Ethics, Further revised edition (London; New York: Penguin Books, 2004). For Kant, it is his argument regarding the nature of human freedom...

... Kant's formulation) "boundless" and "formless,,34 - affectively unreal in a way that leads to an "inhibition of the vital forces35 Yet (again following Kant's account of the sublime) this inhibition of vital forces can be "followed immediately by an outpouring of them that is all the stronger36...

... of craft and the practical knowledge of the person who excels at it: "By restoring manual labor to something like its archaic Greek honor, the encyclopedistes mounted a challenge in equal force to Kant's attack on traditional privilege," in this case by demonstrating the egalitarian power of useful labor...

... by the ontology of being separate. This argument relies upon discussion of the ancient Greeks and Romans, Augustine and Thomas, the new science of Bacon, Descartes and Newton, Machiavelli, Hobbes, Locke, Rousseau, Kant, Hegel, Marx (to whom I shall return later), Nietzsche, Mill, Tocqueville, and the American...