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60Kant and HegelBulletin of the Hegel Society of Great Britain 32 (1-2). 2011.Special issue on Kant and Hegel
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10Religion, Love, and Law: Hegel's Early Metaphysics of MoralsIn Stephen Houlgate & Michael Baur (eds.), A Companion to Hegel, Wiley‐blackwell. 2011.This chapter contains sections titled: Religion: A Moral‐Metaphysical Interpretation of ‘Positivity’ Love: Outline of an Ethical Relation Law: Death and Absolute Sittlichkeit References Secondary Sources.
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9Schiller on the Aesthetics of Morals and Twentieth-Century Kant Scholarship and PhilosophyIn Antonino Falduto & Tim Mehigan (eds.), The Palgrave Handbook on the Philosophy of Friedrich Schiller, Springer Verlag. pp. 511-524. 2023.In On Grace and Dignity, Schiller argues for the moral importance of grace (Anmut), an attractive quality we witness in people’s moves, gestures, or general demeanour, as they interact with others. He claims that grace is the manifestation in outer appearance of the highest kind of moral accomplishment. In this chapter, I seek to understand this surprising claim in light of Schiller’s engagement with Kant’s moral philosophy. Using both historical and contemporary material, I offer a reconstructi…Read more
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Doing without agency : Hegel's social theory of actionIn Arto Laitinen & Constantine Sandis (eds.), Hegel on action, Palgrave-macmillan. 2010.
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Freedom and ethical necessity : a Kantian response to Ulrich (1788)In James A. Clarke & Gabriel Gottlieb (eds.), Practical Philosophy From Kant to Hegel: Freedom, Right, and Revolution, Cambridge University Press. 2020.
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How to Feel a Judgement: The Case of the Kantian SublimeIn Diane Williamson & Kelly Sorensen (eds.), Kant and the Faculty of Feeling, Cambridge University Press. pp. 166-183. 2017.I examine the place of the sublime within the Kantian architectonic, I examine why the topic matters for Kant and what its accommodation within the architectonic tells us about his conception of system. I present my argument in the form of answers to the following questions: “What is the sublime?” “What is the sublime about?” “Why does the sublime matter?”
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140The Actual and the GoodIn A. Honneth and J. Christ (ed.), Zweite Natur. Bd VI. Veröffentlichungen der Internationalen Hegel-Vereinigung vol. 30. pp. 409-422. 2022.I argue that the idea of the good is best understood in terms of a rather unorthodox thesis concerning actuality, namely that what is actual -as opposed to what just is, either spatio-temporally or abstractly- is properly identified as actual if it embodies a value, the value of maximal determinateness.
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139. 'Moral Natural Norms: A Kantian Perspective on Some Neo-Aristotelian Arguments'In Paul Giladi (ed.), Responses to Naturalism: Critical Perspectives from Idealism and Pragmatism, Routledge. pp. 23-43. 2019.Aristotelian ethics has the resources to address a range of first as well as second order ethical questions precisely in those areas in which Kantian ethics is traditionally supposed to be weak. My aim in this chapter is to examine some of these questions, narrowing my remit to those concerning the nature of the good and the authority of norms. In particular, I want to motivate and sketch a non-naturalist Kantian response to the neo-Aristotelian challenge that targets specifically its meta-ethic…Read more
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185'Why be moral?’: How to take the question seriously (and why) from a Kantian perspective',In Christopher Yeomans & Ansgar Lyssy (eds.), Kant on Morality, Humanity, and Legality: Practical Dimensions of Normativity, Palgrave-macmillan. pp. 21-43. 2021.Appropriately specified, the question, 'why be moral?', addresses important and legitimate topics of a broadly meta-ethical nature. The aim of the paper is to use this question as a dialectical tool, in order to identify the core theoretical commitments of Kant'sethics. Becausewell-foundedworrieshavebeenraised about the question itself, I consider these first. The purpose of this preliminary discussion is to determine the sort of question we are dealing with and to introduce the main topics for …Read more
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33Kant, Schiller, and the Idea of a Moral SelfKant Studien 111 (2): 303-322. 2020.The paper examines Schiller’s argument concerning the subjective experience of adopting a morality based on Kantian principles. On Schiller’s view, such experience must be marked by a continuous struggle to suppress nature, because the moral law is a purely rational and categorically commanding law that addresses beings who are natural as well as rational. Essential for Schiller’s conclusion is the account he has of what it takes to follow the law, that is, the mental states and functions that e…Read more
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31Science, thought and nature: Hegel’s completion of Kant’s idealism [Special Issue]Journal of the Italian Society of Analytic Philosophy (SIFA) 4 (8): 19-46. 2019.Focusing on Hegel’s engagement with Kant’s theoretical philosophy, the paper shows the merits of its characterisation as “completion”. The broader aim is to offer a fresh perspective on familiar historical arguments and on contemporary discussions of philosophical naturalism by examining the distinctive combination of idealism and naturalism that motivates the priority both authors accord to the topics of testability of philosophical claims and of the nature of the relation between philosophy an…Read more
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187Freedom and ethical necessity: a Kantian response to UlrichIn James A. Clarke & Gabriel Gottlieb (eds.), Practical Philosophy From Kant to Hegel: Freedom, Right, and Revolution, Cambridge University Press. 2020.The paper starts with outlining the problems of determinism presented in Ulrich's Eleuthériologie and then examines what resources are available to Kant to address these problems. Although the initial focus is historical, one of the aims is to show that the problems with determinism continue to be live problems for those who seek to defend Kant's theory. So the attempt to seek resources in Kant to address these problems will also involve an attempt to offer a diagnosis of what is needed for such…Read more
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2Immanuel Kant und die Öffentlichkeit der Vernunft Kantstudien-Ergänzungshefte by Johannes Keienburg (review)Kant Studies Online 2014 (1). 2014.
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257Hegel on AddictionHegel Bulletin 40 (3): 398-424. 2019.The aim of this paper is to show how certain distinctive elements of Hegel's theory of action can provide a fresh philosophical perspective on the phenomenon of addiction. What motivates the turn to Hegel is a set of puzzles that arise out of contemporary medical and philosophical discussions of addiction. Starting with questions concerning ongoing attempts to define addiction, the paper examines the resources needed for addiction to be classed as a disorder, as it commonly is. Provisionally set…Read more
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212The 'Ought' and the 'Can'Con-Textos Kantianos 8 324-347. 2018.Kant's conception of autonomy presents the following problem. If, following Kant's explicit lead, we consider autonomy as the universal principle of morality and ground of the actions of rational beings (e.g. G 4:452), then self-legislation is best understood as a prescription by reason to itself. Applied to individual cases of willing, the term 'autonomy' describes the bringing of a set of practical attitudes under rational legislation. Agents may count as autonomous then, insofar as and only t…Read more
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22Imagination in Kant's Critique of Practical Reason, by Bernard Freydberg (review)Journal of the British Society for Phenomenology 39 (3): 334-336. 2008.
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21Sagezza, Immaginazione E Giudizio Pratico. Studio Su Aristotele E Kant, by Alfredo Ferrarin (review)Journal of the British Society for Phenomenology 39 (3): 334-336. 2008.
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29Hegel's Theory of Imagination, by Jennifer Ann Bates (review)Journal of the British Society for Phenomenology 39 (3): 334-336. 2008.
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9Terry Pinkard, German Philosophy 1760–1860. The Legacy of Idealism , pp. viii + 382. ISBN 0521663261 , 0521663814 (review)Hegel Bulletin 27 (1-2): 158-160. 2006.
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9Robert B. Pippin, Idealism as Modernism. Hegelian Variations , pp. xviii + 466Hegel Bulletin 20 (1-2): 108-111. 1999.
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9Paul Redding, Hegel's Hermeneutics, Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 1996, pp xvi + 262, Hb £32.00, Pb £13.00 (review)Hegel Bulletin 18 (2): 26-28. 1997.
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6Jon Stewart , The Hegel Myths and Legends, Evanston: Northwestern University Press, 1996, pp xiii + 384, Hb £45.00, Pb £16.95 (review)Hegel Bulletin 18 (2): 45-46. 1997.
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21Dissatisfied Enlightenment: Certain Difficulties Concerning The Public Use Of One's ReasonHegel Bulletin 18 (1): 39-53. 1997.
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8Ardis B Collins , Hegel on the Modern World, Albany: State University of New York Press, 1995, pp xxi + 248, Hb $44.50 (review)Hegel Bulletin 16 (2): 90. 1995.
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15L S Stepelevich , Selected Essays On G W F Hegel, New Jersey: Humanities Press, 1993, pp viii + 228, Hb $39.95Hegel Bulletin 15 (2): 91-92. 1994.
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10G W F Hegel, Introductory Lectures On Aesthetics, translated by B Bosanquet, edited by M Inwood, Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1993, pp xxxviii + 197, Pb £6.99 (review)Hegel Bulletin 15 (2): 93. 1994.
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