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44Critiques of JudgmentRadical Philosophy Review 16 (1): 99-107. 2013.I argue that Marcuse follows Kant’s critical distinction in mapping three basic forms of judgment: cognitive, moral, and aesthetic, all united by the underlying structure of purposiveness. Marcuse argues in Eros and Civilization that psychoanalysis has falsely identified repression as moral judgment with material need. With the gradual disappearance of material need, however, the authority of repression disappears, creating the possibility for freedom. However, the vacuum left by moral authority…Read more
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62Rousseau's Theodicy of Self-Love: Evil, Rationality, and the Drive for RecognitionJournal of Moral Philosophy 8 (2): 293-295. 2011.
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32Kant, Genius and Moral DevelopmentIn Stefano Bacin, Alfredo Ferrarin, Claudio La Rocca & Margit Ruffing (eds.), Kant und die Philosophie in weltbürgerlicher Absicht. Akten des XI. Internationalen Kant-Kongresses, De Gruyter. pp. 601-610. 2013.
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79Some normative implications of Korsgaard's theory of the intersubjectivity of reasonMetaphilosophy 42 (4): 376-380. 2011.Abstract: This article argues that Christine Korsgaard's conception of self-constitution can be historicized by considering the impact of actual humans on our reflective activity. Because Korsgaard bases her argument on a philosophy of action rather than of intention (as Kant does), and our actions must always be concrete, the article argues that the principles for action which we develop in reflection are likewise responses to concrete human demands. It further interprets the types of demands h…Read more
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Robert Bruce Ware's Hegel: The Logic Of Self-Consciousness And The Legacy Of Subjective Freedom (review)Bulletin of the Hegel Society of Great Britain 49 169-173. 2004.
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62The Founding Act of Modern Ethical Life: Hegel's Critique of Kant's Moral and Political PhilosophyJournal of Moral Philosophy 6 (4): 535-537. 2009.
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61Fanon: Colonialism and the Critical Ideals of German IdealismCritical Horizons 13 (3). 2012.I argue that Franz Fanon can usefully be situated in the tradition of German Idealism in the sense that he takes from Kant and especially Hegel the conception of agency as something to be achieved through struggle for the ideal of humanity as self-determining. Fanon sees the suffering cased by colonial rule in Africa and elsewhere as deriving from the systematic deprivation of agency by the colonial power. Using the work of Hegel, Fanon seeks to reconstruct the emancipatory project of the black …Read more
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49The Kantian Sublime and the Revelation of Freedom by clewis, robertJournal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 69 (3): 348-350. 2011.
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138Hegel's grounding of intersubjectivity in the master-slave dialecticPhilosophy and Social Criticism 38 (3): 237-256. 2012.In this article I seek to explain Hegel’s significance to contemporary meta-ethics, in particular to Kantian constructivism. I argue that in the master–slave dialectic in the Phenomenology of Spirit , Hegel shows that self-consciousness and intersubjectivity arise at the same time. This point, I argue, shows that there is no problem with taking other people’s reasons to motivate us since reflection on our aims is necessarily also reflection on the needs of those around us. I further explore Hege…Read more
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