...Thomas E. Hill, Jr. Samuel J. Kerstein, Kant's Search for the Supreme Principle of Morality. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002. Pp. xiv, 226. Cornell University 2004 The Philosophical Review, Vol. 113, No. 2 (April 2004) Critical Notice of Richard Moran...

... the Supreme Court. Of course, the Supreme Court is not a single fleshy object with nine tongues and eighteen elbows. But that leaves open the possibility that the Supreme Court is a variable embodiment ( Fine 1999 ), a realization of a structure ( Ritchie 2013 ), or some other kind of hylomorphic compound...

.... Descartes's ontological argument defines “God” as “a supremely perfect being,” where supreme perfection consists in an inseparable unity of such particular perfections as infinity, omnipotence, omniscience, immutability, and (crucially for the ontological argument) existence and necessary existence...

... 271 BOOK REVIEWS The Philosophical Review, Vol. 113, No. 2 (April 2004) Samuel J. Kerstein, Kant’s Search for the Supreme Principle of Morality. Cam- bridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002. Pp. xiv, 226. This is a well-focused, scholarly...

.... IAKOVOS VASILIOU The Graduate Center/Brooklyn College, City University of New York 271 BOOK REVIEWS The Philosophical Review, Vol. 113, No. 2 (April 2004) Samuel J. Kerstein, Kant’s Search for the Supreme Principle...

.... IAKOVOS VASILIOU The Graduate Center/Brooklyn College, City University of New York 271 BOOK REVIEWS The Philosophical Review, Vol. 113, No. 2 (April 2004) Samuel J. Kerstein, Kant’s Search for the Supreme Principle...

...Graham Oppy Kvanvig focuses on three starting points for theology, expressed as claims about divine essence: (CT) Fundamentally, a god is an asymmetric source of all else. (WWT) Fundamentally, a god is a being that is maximally worthy of supreme worship. (PBT) Fundamentally, a god...

... in Descartes’s defense of the Ontological Argument against Caterus’s powerful objection that it proves only that “the concept of existence is inseparable from the concept of a supreme being,” but not that anything answers to the concept of a supreme being (222). As Hatfield shows, in his reply Descartes...

... from clear perceptions. His commitment to PAP is less ambiguous in the Principles ” (122–24). Principles I.37 states: “It is a supreme perfection in man that he acts voluntarily, that is, freely.” Here, Ragland argues, “Descartes equates freedom with voluntariness,” the “rest of the passage...

... by Stephan Körner. On this conception, metaphysical thinking involves con- structing a “categorial framework.” A categorial framework is (roughly) an account of the supreme principles that guide thought and action in the “pub- licly accessible” world. A categorial framework emerges from agents’ “cognitive...

... on legal applications, “Democratic Law and the Erosion of Common Law” and “Constitutional Balancing and State Interests.” The former focuses on what might seem to be a minor, technical Supreme Court decision concerning frequent-flier programs, yet Shiffrin persuasively argues that it raises far-reaching...

... limiting the power of the state as regards the disposition of private property within the operations of the market econ- omy, Kant actually attributes to the state the authority to tax and administer the economy as supreme proprietor of the land, as well as explicitly advocating the establishment...

... the supreme determining ground of his will [in]…his own happiness, not in the thought of duty” (Ak. 7:130). But in prioritizing his own needs above the moral law, the moral egoist is clearly evil. And if the egoistic self is evil, then so, too, is the self-love it stands behind. What Papish ends up...

... with the best and most complete)” (1098a16–18).1 The nat- ural reading of this has Aristotle saying that if it turns out that the soul’s activities can accord with more than one virtue, the activity that accords with one and only one of those virtues, the supreme virtue, is exclusively the highest good...

... me a nature such that I was deceived [(a)] even in matters which seemed most evident [manifestissima]. And whenever my preconceived belief in the supreme power of God comes to mind, I cannot but admit that it would be easy for him, if he so desired, to bring it about that I go...

... used to defend the notion that law has supreme authority, and I find her careful criticism of the Razian strategy to be worth noting. Given Hurd’s contention that there are occasions when the balance of moral considerations permits individuals to disobey the law, one must...

... and tradition, inferences from nonmoral phenomena, or any other nonethical reflection, he begins with the idea that ‘God’ is the supremely perfect being and attempts to establish God’s nature through substantive ethical reflection about which qual- ities are excellent. His nearly complete reliance...

... that became central to Western philosophy in later centuries. For instance, he draws attention to the importance of the relation between the intellect and the will (maintaining that the will is the supreme power of the soul, ruling over the intellect); he also presents arguments for the claim that he...

... autonomy against the wishes of their (usually religious) parents, and so finds in favor, for example, of the U.S. Supreme Court’s Yoder decision. He argues that the expressive interest parents have in rearing their children outweighs the inter- ests those children have in becoming autonomous, because...

... (42–45) to understanding what Gandhi means by violence and nonviolence and what accounts for the status of nonviolence, on Gandhi's view, as a supreme moral principle. Haksar's claim that Gandhi draws a morally significant distinction between “outward” violence that inflicts injury and “inward...