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Duress and Moral Progress
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Seana Valentine Shiffrin
Published: 28 December 2014
... progress, taking into account issues such as those relating to third parties and contracts. It then proposes an alternative to the dominant view about promises made under duress, an alternative inspired by some remarks of Immanuel Kant and of Adam Smith. It concludes by considering some objections...
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German Idealism in a Maimonidean Key
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Abraham P. Socher
Published: 14 September 2006
...In his commentary on Immanuel Kant's Critique of Pure Reason , Solomon Maimon used an approach that he described as one of independent and eclectic exegesis. Maimon's commentary moves from “obscure ideas” to distinct understanding, which is also characteristic of his proposed...
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The Radical Enlightenment of Solomon Maimon: Judaism, Heresy, and Philosophy
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Abraham P. Socher
Published online: 20 June 2013
Published in print: 14 September 2006
... Enlightenment. He scandalized rabbinic authorities, embarrassed Moses Mendelssohn, provoked Immanuel Kant, charmed Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, and inspired Johann Gottlieb Fichte, among others. This study of Maimon integrates his idiosyncratic philosophical idealism with his popular autobiography, and with his...
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Always the Other Who Decides: On Sovereignty, Psychoanalysis, and the Death Penalty
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Michael Naas
Published: 03 July 2018
... psychoanalysis Reik Theodor Al Hallaj Benjamin Walter Bush George W Jesus Joan of Arc President figure of Socrates hospitality ipseity phantasm Benveniste Emile Genet Jean Nietzsche Friedrich autoimmunity Heraclitus Capital Punishment Death Penalty Deconstruction Immanuel Kant Jacques Derrida...
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A Proper Death: Penalties, Animals, and the Law
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Nicole Anderson
Published: 03 July 2018
... Deconstruction Immanuel Kant Jacques Derrida Lex Talionis “Death to death.” —jacques derrida , The Death Penalty , vol. 1 When for the very first time one reads the opening session of volume 1 of The Death Penalty , what Derrida says may, initially, seem obvious: He...
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Introduction: Production, History
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Jan Mieszkowski
Published: 30 April 2006
... the creative authority of language. The starting point for such a discussion is necessarily Immanuel Kant's Critique of Judgment , the most famous attempt to formulate a doctrine of genius with which to overthrow the normative poetics that predominated in eighteenth-century Germany. context...
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The Art of Interest
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Jan Mieszkowski
Published: 30 April 2006
...Throughout his oeuvre, Immanuel Kant focuses on the uncertain relations between universal principles and singular events that threaten to confound the elaboration of a comprehensive model of the mind. One of the central concepts in his account of the (dis)equilibrium of the self is interest, a term...
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Analysis
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Lawrence Kramer
Published: 11 February 2010
... Largo (from Trio in D Major, op. 70, no. 1, the “Ghost” Trio) raises issues that also confront the “enlightened” subject described in Immanuel Kant's famous essay of 1784, “What Is Enlightenment?” feeling and expression Kuhn Thomas aesthetic the context “extramusical ” the New Musicology...
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Critique and the Ends of Reason
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Christian Kerslake
Published: 18 September 2009
...This chapter explores Immanuel Kant's own systematic account of the critical project. It also demonstrates how Kant locates the implicit metacritical dimension of the critical project within a transcendental account of human culture. Kant understands that the deduction of freedom...
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Deleuze and the Vertigo of Immanence
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Christian Kerslake
Published: 18 September 2009
... is essentially a de-transcendentalised version of Immanuel Kant's theory. Deleuze suggests that David Hume leads to an account of temporal synthesis already very close to Kant's. It is suggested that the apocalypse in its transcendental sense is rather linked to a re-grounding of the subject...
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Hegel, the Wound
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Robyn Marasco
Published: 24 March 2015
... which Immanuel Kant tries to establish the concept's objective validity and the foundations for a priori knowledge. Pippin adds that the question of whether Hegel's speculative system can be called critical rests exclusively on its relationship to Kant, its adherence to the “identity...
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Loaded Questions: An Introduction
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Marjorie Garber
Published: 01 June 2012
... and translation, while also addressing the work of theorists from Immanuel Kant and Sigmund Freud to Michel Foucault and Claude Lévi-Strauss. It explores both the meanings ascribed to such words and the surprising degree of passion—and occasional animus—that they evoke. loaded words Humpty Dumpty loaded...
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Published: 02 March 2012
...This chapter reviews the early Idealist theory of the judgment as developed in response to Immanuel Kant and Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi. It summarizes the political valence of the critique of judgment, in particular its Platonic dimensions. The example of Friedrich Schlegel's account of marriage...
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Blake’s Mundane Egg: Epigenesis and Milieux
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Amanda Jo Goldstein
Published: 10 July 2017
... Dogma Crick Crick Francis Dawkins Richard Human Genome Project Jacob François Keller Evelyn Fox The Selfish Gene Dawkins shape Weismann’s Barrier ecology Gottlieb Gilbert Oyama Susan plasticity Lewontin Richard epigenesis epigenetics Developmental Systems Theory Immanuel Kant Jean...
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Published: 15 June 2012
...This chapter explores how Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel's early theological writings deal with the question of reason through a dialogue with Immanuel Kant and Moses Mendelssohn. Hegel's most sustained analysis of the essence of Judaism can be found in the so-called Berne and Frankfurt essays...
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Published: 24 November 2017
... Critique of Pure Reason Kant Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals Kant freedom Stevens Wallace Benedictus de Spinoza Immanuel Kant Enlightenment materialism naturalism Deuteronomy religion radical Enlightenment supernaturalism reason I’m not finished. Edward Scissorhands Kant’s essay...
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Published: 27 February 2015
... Nazism toleration Tucholsky Kurt Christianity Gramsci Antonio Jung Deutschland Mann Thomas optimism secular secularization Toller Ernst Zweig Stefan Brandt Willy the war habit Frederick the Great enlightenment contradiction Immanuel Kant eternal peace aftermath twentieth century...
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Published: 21 November 2013
... degradation humiliation Kant Immanuel mystery personalism German Basic Law Parliamentary Council Theodor Heuss inner freedom first-person-perspective Günter Dürig Carlo Schmid interiority Epictetus Immanuel Kant THE GENESIS OF THE German Basic Law's human dignity article 1 has so far...
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The Black Tide: Mysticism, Rationality, and the German Occult Revival
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Jason Ā. Josephson-Storm
Published: 18 May 2017
...-Jewish physician Max Nordau, who theorized his own conception of degeneration alongside a broader contention that modernity led to irrationalization and mysticism. The chapter then shows how conceptions of magic and spirits haunted the German reception of Immanuel Kant and became entangled...
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Jefferson and Kant
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Albert Borgmann
Published: 08 January 2007
...This chapter discusses the views of Immanuel Kant and Thomas Jefferson. Both were men of the Enlightenment and were profoundly attuned to the rational and egalitarian spirit of their time. Reason was for both of them the source of light. Both men put their trust in the moral fiber of common folk...