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9Kant on absolute valueWayne State University Press. 1972.The thesis of this book, first published in 1972, is that Kant's notions of 'absolute worth', the 'unconditioned' and 'unconditioned worth' are rationalistic and confused, and that they spoil his ontology of personal value and tend to subvert his splendid idea of the person as an End in himself.
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2‘Is and Ought’: Yet AgainIn Peter Wong, Sherah Bloor, Patrick Hutchings & Purushottama Bilimoria (eds.), Considering Religions, Rights and Bioethics: For Max Charlesworth, Springer Verlag. pp. 155-173. 2019.Hume was wrong about getting an ‘ought’ out of an ‘is’: We do it all the time. The precaution which ‘authors do not commonly use’ is a relevant principle which we insert between mere is and axiological ought. Pamela in Richardson’s Pamela had one notable principle: qv. Kant’s later insistence that we ‘Act only on that maxim that you can at the same time will be an universal law’ sinks Hume.
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The Readymades of Marcel Duchamp: Cut Flowers or les fleurs du mal?Literature & Aesthetics 10 31-50. 2000.
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McCloskey, M. A.: "Kant's Aesthetic" (review)Australasian Journal of Philosophy 68 (n/a): 467. 1990.
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Barnett Newman: The 'Zip' and Specious Presents, or Presence. What Am I Doing Here?Literature & Aesthetics 13 (1): 71-87. 2003.