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7Fichte: Attempt at a Critique of All RevelationCambridge University Press. 2009.The Attempt at a Critique of All Revelation was the first published work of Johann Gottlieb Fichte, the founder of the German idealist movement in philosophy. It predated the system of philosophy which Fichte developed during his years in Jena, and for that reason - and possibly also because of its religious orientation - later commentators have tended to overlook the work in their treatments of Fichte's philosophy. It is, however, already representative of the most interesting aspects of Fichte…Read more
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15The Immortality of Moral FaithProceedings of the Sixth International Kant Congress 2 (2): 417-437. 1989.
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125Humanity as End in ItselfProceedings of the Eighth International Kant Congress 1 301-319. 1995.
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137. Hegel’s Critique of MoralityIn Ludwig Siep (ed.), G. W. F. Hegel: Grundlinien der Philosophie des Rechts, Oldenbourg Wissenschaftsverlag. pp. 131-148. 2014.
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257. Hegel’s Critique of MoralityIn Ludwig Siep (ed.), G. W. F. Hegel: Grundlinien der Philosophie des Rechts, Oldenbourg Wissenschaftsverlag. pp. 147-166. 2014.
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17Unsettling Obligations: Essays on Reason, Reality, and the Ethics of BeliefCenter for the Study of Language and Inf. 2002.Should we hold beliefs only insofar as they are rationally supportable? According to Allen W. Wood, we're morally obliged to do so—and yet how does this apply to religious beliefs? _Unsettling Obligations_ examines these and related ethical and philosophical issues, taking and defending stances on many of them. Along with the theme of belief and evidence, other topics include a historical perspective of philosophy based on the Enlightenment rationalist tradition and a study of how our practical …Read more
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7Thought, Estados Unidos, Cambridge University Press, 1999, 436 pSignos Filosóficos 5 233-263. 2001.
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German IdealismIn Dean Moyar (ed.), The Routledge Companion to Nineteenth Century Philosophy, Routledge. pp. 104. 2010.
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4213 Rational theology, moral faith, and religionIn Paul Guyer (ed.), The Cambridge companion to Kant, Cambridge University Press. pp. 3--394. 1992.
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2Hegel and MarxismIn Frederick C. Beiser (ed.), The Cambridge Companion to Hegel, Cambridge University Press. pp. 414--444. 1993.
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123The Emptiness of the Moral WillThe Monist 72 (3): 454-483. 1989.It is well known that Hegel contrasts the “Moral standpoint” or “morality” with the higher standpoint of “social ethics” or “ethical life”, and that he regards Kant’s ethical theory as an expression of the moral standpoint. Hegel finds many shortcomings in the moral standpoint, but probably the most famous of Hegel’s criticisms of Kantian moral theory is the charge that Kant’s theory is an “empty formalism,” incapable of providing any “immanent doctrine of duties,” The Kantian moral law, says He…Read more
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21Mary J. Gregor 1928-1994Proceedings and Addresses of the American Philosophical Association 68 (5). 1995.Brief biography of Mary Gregor
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76Hegel spent most of his life as an educator. Between 1794 and 1800, he was a private tutor, first in Bern, Switzerland, and then in Frankfurt-am-Main. He then began a university career at the University of Jena, which in 1806 was interrupted by the Napoleonic conquest of Prussia, and did not resume for ten years. In the intervening years, he was director of a Gymnasium (or secondary school) in Nuremberg. In 1816, Hegel was appointed professor of philosophy at the University of Heidelberg, then a…Read more
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32Marx’s Critical Anthropology: Three Recent InterpretationsReview of Metaphysics 26 (1). 1972.It is the avowed aim of Avineri’s study to "bring out the ambivalent indebtedness of Marx to the Hegelian tradition." This aim determines the central place of Marx’s concept of man in his discussion; for it was from Hegel and the young Hegelians that Marx drew the anthropological problematic which dominates his early writings. The Hegelian concept of Geist served the young Hegelians as the model for a philosophical conception of man, as a being exhibiting the unique dignity of his rational natur…Read more
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185Fichte's intersubjective IInquiry: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Philosophy 49 (1). 2006.The challenge to philosophy of mind for the past two hundred years has been to overcome the Cartesian conception of mind. This essay explores the attempt to do this by J. G. Fichte, especially regarding intersubjectivity or the knowledge of other minds. Fichte provides a transcendental deduction of the concept of the other I, as a condition for experiencing the individuality of our own I. The basis of this argument is the concept of the "summons", which Fichte argues is necessary for us to form …Read more
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304Kant on Duties Regarding Nonrational NatureAristotelian Society Supplementary Volume 72 (1). 1998.Kant's moral philosophy is grounded on the dignity of humanity as its sole fundamental value, and involves the claim that human beings are to be regarded as the ultimate end of nature. It might be thought that a theory of this kind would be incapable of grounding any conception of our relation to other living things or to the natural world which would value nonhuman creatures or respect humanity's natural environment. This paper criticizes Kant's argumentative strategy for dealing with our dutie…Read more
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217Duties to Oneself, Duties of Respect to OthersIn Thomas E. Hill (ed.), The Blackwell Guide to Kant's Ethics, Wiley-blackwell. 2009.One of the principal aims of Kant’s Metaphysics of Morals, especially of the Doctrine of Virtue, is to present a taxonomy of our duties as human beings. The basic division of duties is between juridical duties and ethical duties, which determines the division of the Metaphysics of Morals into the Doctrine of Right and the Doctrine of Virtue. Juridical duties are duties that may be coercively enforced from outside the agent, as by the civil or criminal laws, or other social pressures. Ethical dut…Read more
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27Kant's Rational Theology.Lectures on Philosophical TheologyPhilosophical Review 89 (2): 285. 1980.
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3Kant and the intelligibility of evilIn Sharon Anderson-Gold & Pablo Muchnik (eds.), Kant's Anatomy of Evil, Cambridge University Press. 2009.
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85The Free Development of Each: Studies on Freedom, Right, and Ethics in Classical German PhilosophyOxford University Press. 2014.The Free Development of Each collects twelve essays on the history of German philosophy by Allen W. Wood, one of the leading scholars in the field. They explore moral philosophy, politics, society, and history in the works of Kant, Herder, Fichte, Hegel, and Marx, and share the basic theme of freedom, as it appears in morality and in politics.
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12Religion and Rational Theology (edited book)Cambridge University Press. 2001.This volume collects for the first time in a single volume all of Kant's writings on religion and rational theology. These works were written during a period of conflict between Kant and the Prussian authorities over his religious teachings. His final statement of religion was made after the death of King Frederick William II in 1797. The historical context and progression of this conflict are charted in the general introduction to the volume and in the translators' introductions to particular t…Read more
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2Herder and Kant on History: Their Enlightenment FaithIn Samuel Newlands & Larry M. Jorgensen (eds.), Metaphysics and the good: themes from the philosophy of Robert Merrihew Adams, Oxford University Press. 2009.
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21Kant: Religion Within the Boundaries of Mere Reason: And Other Writings (edited book)Cambridge University Press. 1998.Religion within the Boundaries of Mere Reason is a key element of the system of philosophy which Kant introduced with his Critique of Pure Reason, and a work of major importance in the history of Western religious thought. It represents a great philosopher's attempt to spell out the form and content of a type of religion that would be grounded in moral reason and would meet the needs of ethical life. It includes sharply critical and boldly constructive discussions on topics not often treated by …Read more
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37Formal and Transcendental Logic; A Study of Husserl's Formal and Transcendental LogicPhilosophical Review 80 (2): 267. 1971.
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