Kant and the New Enlightenment: On the Balance between Duty and Utilitarian Ends
... and the recommendations which Kant prescribes both in his philosophy of history and in his reflections on politics, right and justice, essentially boils down to three points of the philosophy of balance: the balance between development and justice (Kantian republicanism), between the speed and stability of development (external policy, the Kantian peace project), and between the short-term and long-term perspectives (reform policy). I then touch upon the problem of the implementation of Kantian ...
The Knight of Contemporary Russian Kantiana. On the 85th Birthday of Leonard Kalinnikov
This is a review of the main research achievements of Professor L. A. Kalinnikov presented in his articles and monographs. The theoretical issues of Kantianism considered in Kalinnikov’s works include the problem of cognisability of “the thing in itself” and noumenal affection, the character of systematicity in Kant’s philosophy and the methodology of its interpretation. Cycles of articles ...
The Image of Fichte’s Philosophy in German Neo-Kantianism
Neo-Kantianism is traditionally seen as a philosophy that was formed to develop and actualise Kant’s philosophy and Kantian transcendental methodology. However, Kant was the determining, but by no means the only, influence on the emergence of the neo-Kantian tradition. Neo-Kantianism was strongly influenced by the entire German post-Kantian philosophy, especially by ...
Analytic Work on Kant — Idealism, Things in Themselves, and the Object of Knowledge
... faithful to Kant’s texts, (ii) renders his position consistent (and his major arguments valid), and (iii) does not rest on premises that are themselves philosophically implausible. The author argues that these three desiderata are not met in any strictly Kantian and philosophically satisfactory way in the interpretations given by P. F. Strawson, Rae Langton, Henry Allison, and Desmond Hogan, among other analytic Kant scholars. It is unlikely that one can find any strictly Kantian, philosophically satisfactory ...
Kantian ethos in J. Rawls’s political philosophy
... and I. Kant’s ideas and the intellectual and political tradition of the Enlightenment in general. The author defends Rawls’s approach to Kant’s works interpreting it as “discipleship”, the assimilation and intrinsic reconceptualization of Kantian ideas preserving the essence of the assimilated. Rawls justifies his own re-description of Kantian philosophy by using Kant's ideas. Transforming Kant’s ideas, the he implements Kantian ethos (spirit), which can be understood as the free use ...
Kant’s Concept of Enlightenment and Its Alternatives
The modern popularity of the Kantian definition of enlightenment often leads to a distorted notion that his understanding of enlightenment was dominant already during his lifetime, expressing the quintessence of all-European Enlightenment. This turns our attention away from entire ...
The Nature of Appearance in Kant’s Transcendentalism: A Seman- tico-Cognitive Analysis
... Revised and enlarged ed. New Haven & London: Yale University Press.
Aquila, R., 1979. Things in Themselves and Appearances: Intentionality and Reality. Archiv für Geschichte der Philosophie, 61(3), pp. 293-308.
Aquila, R., 1981. Intentional Objects and Kantian Appearances. Philosophical Topics, 12(2), pp. 9-37.
Aquila, R., 2003. Hans Vaihinger and Some Recent Intentionalist Readings of Kant. Journal of the History of Philosophy, 41(2), pp. 231-250.
Aquila, R., 2016. The Transcendental Idealisms of Kant ...
Studies into the history of Russian Neo-Kantianism in Poland
... the paradigms of European culture. From antiquity to the present day / eds. A. Borkowski, J. Urban. Colloquia Litteraria Sedlcensia. Studia Minora II]. Siedlce, p. 37—40.
29. Czardybon B. 2010 (b), Motywy neokantowskie w rosyjskim symbolizmie [Neo- Kantian motifs in the Russian symbolism] // Symbol w kulturze rosyjskiej / pod red. K. Dudy, T. Obolevitch [Symbol in Russian culture / eds. K. Duda, T. Obolevitch]. Cracow, p. 473—491.
30. Czardybon B. 2011 (a), Doswiadczenia marburskie Wladyslawa ...
The Philosophy of Vasily Sesemann and Marburg Neo-Kantianism
... Sezemana [The problem of rational and irrational in the philosophical system of V. E. Se¬semann] // Х Kantovskije chtenija. Klassicheskij razum i wyzowy sovremiennoj civilizacji. Matierialy miezdunarodnoj w 2 ch. T. 2. / pod red. V. N. Brushinkina [X Kantian reading. Classic minds and challenges of modern civilization. Proceedings of the international conference in 2 hours.
2. T. / ed. V. N. Bryushinkin]. Kaliningrad, p. 7—24.
2. Belov V. N. 2010 (b), Uchenije Germana Kogena v Rossii: osobiennosti ...
Kant, Nietzsche, and the Enlightenment: A comparative analysis
... of Philosophy], no. 1, p. 139—150.
2. Volkova N., Ivanov M. 2014, Svobodnoe myshlenie i otvet I. Kanta na vopros: chto takoe prosveshchenie? [Free thinking and Kant’s answer to the question: What is Enlightenment?], IX Kantovskie chteniya… [IX Kantian reading…], p. 238—241.
3. Gerlakh, G.-M. 2010, Kant i berlinskoe Prosveshchenie [Kant and Berlin Enlightenment], Kantovkiy sbornik [Kantian collection], no. 4, p. 13—20.
4. Camus, A. 1999, Nitsshe i nigilism [Nietzsche and nihilism], Buntuyushchiy ...
Between Kant and Trendelenburg: On the Genealogy of Kudryavtsev-Platonov’s Theory of Cognition
Viktor D. Kudryavtsev-Platonov is one of the most prominent representatives of Russian religious-academic philosophy of the second half of the nineteenth century whose theory of cognition bears an imprint of the Kantian theoretical philosophy. Kudryavtsev was not only thoroughly familiar with the Königsberg thinker’s work, but offered a critically reinterpreted version of Kant’s teaching on space, time and categories of understanding. But was the Russian ...
Angiolini vs Kant: Philosophical Endeavour at the Polotsk Jesuit Academy
... (Neo-Scholasticism) was a reaction to devastating criticism by the representatives of Enlightenment which led to the destruction of traditional metaphysics and of epistemological optimism, the two pillars of European religious philosophy. Reception of Kantian ideas in Neo-Scholasticism varied from total rejection to its use in renewing the philosophical foundation of religious philosophy. In this regard the legacy of the Polotsk Jesuit Academy was one of the first attempts to interpret Kant’s ideas ...
The Ethics of the Categorical Imperative. Lossky under the Influence of Kant
The Russian intuitivist philosopher Nikolay Lossky repeatedly admitted Kant’s substantial formative influence on him as a scholar. Moreover, Lossky was a disciple of the Russian Kantian Aleksander Vvedensky, and was one of the most successful translators of the first Critique. However, his own philosophical project is rather the opposite of the critical programme. While in the framework of Lossky’s epistemology the specificities ...
Semantic and Stylistic Features of Kant’s Observations on the Feeling of the Beautiful and the Sublime: The Art of Seeing and Describing an Object
... lingvistiki filosofskogo teksta [Kant and Problems of Linguistics of the Philosophical Text]: Synopsis of the PhD Dissertation. St. Petersburg: s.n. (In Rus.)
Koptsev, I. D., 2010. To the Subject-Speech Structure of I. Kant’s Axiological Discourse. Kantian Journal, 2(32), pp. 60-68. (In Rus.)
Kuehn, М., 2001. Kant: A Biography. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Latour, B., 1986. Visualization and Cognition: Drawing Things Together. In: H. Kuklick, ed. 1986. Knowledge and Society Studies in ...
The Paradox of Kant’s Transcendental Subject in German Philosophy in the Late Eighteenth Century
The study of the “first wave” of reactions to the Critique of Pure Reason in Germany from the second half of the 1780s until the beginning of the nineteenth century reveals the paradoxical status of the Kantian transcendental subject. While the existence of the transcendental subject, whatever the term means, is not open to question since it arises from the very essence of critical philosophy, the fundamental status of the subject is sometimes questioned ...
Russian Kantianism and Neo-Kantianism of the beginning of the 20th century in the unpublished memoirs of A. A. Borovoi
The unpublished memoirs of the anarchist writer Alexei Borovoi (1875—1935) contain crucial information on Russian Kantianism and Neo-Kantianism. The article describes philosophical societies, discussions and philosophical biographies on the basis of archive records.
1. Боровой А. Париж был и остается замечательнейшим фактом ...
Duty and Coercion in Kant’s Republican Cosmopolitanism
... Implications for Humanitarian Military Intervention”, in: Jahrbuch für Recht und Ethik 16, pp. 57—100.
3. Bernstein, A. R. 2014, The Right of States, the Rule of Law, and Coercion: Reflections on Pauline Kleingeld’s Kant and Cosmopolitanism, in: Kantian Review 19/2, pp. 233—249.
4. Byrd, S., Hruschka, J. 2010, Kant’s Doctrine of Right. A Commentary, Cambridge.
5. Flikschuh, K. 2007, Duty, Nature, Right: Kant’s Response to Mendelssohn in Theory and Practice III, in: Journal of Moral Philosophy ...
Russian neo-Kantianism: history and characteristics of its development
The article is dedicated to the analysis of the development of neo-Kantianism in Russia. Russian neo-Kantianism is marked with originality, which was due to the cultural and historical peculiarities of the formation of the national philosophical thought. The stages and specific character of the development of Russian neo-Kantianism are considered by example of the creation of A. I. Vvedensky, B. V. Yakovenko and V. E. Sesemann.
1. Bulgakov S. N. Ot marksizma k idealizmu. Stat'i i recenzii. 1895—1903...
Immanuel Kant in the Conversations and Reflections of Nikolay Strakhov
... of correspondence with the last two writers went a long way to shape and develop Strakhov’s perception of Kant as a thinker. Indeed, without a virtual dialogue with Kant no modern philosophical system can be built. Strakhov’s reflections on the Kantian style of thinking, adoption of Kantian criticism as the model of epistemic analysis in many ways determined the features of his own philosophical work and became a catalyst of renewed interest in Russia in the Kantian philosophy in the last third ...
Reclaiming the “Cultural Mandate”: The Idea of Sustainable Development in the Kantian Perspective
... history and content of the notion of “sustainable development” and offer an analysis of the sources of progressivist commitment to the conquest of nature which lie outside Modern Times in the idea of the “cultural mandate”. Then I present the Kantian diagnosis of the causes of the crisis which attributes it to humankind’s failure to “mature”. I compare the idea of “the full world” formulated by the authors of the report with the idea of the “the world come of age” and their diagnosis ...
Space and Time as A Priori Forms in the Works of Hermann Cohen and Ivan Lapshin
... scientific knowledge. Indeed, the works of the Russian neo-Kantian contain echoes and polemical adjustments of Cohen’s spatio-temporal ideas. Our study has revealed common epistemological attitudes in Cohen and Lapshin: the wish to improve elements of Kantian philosophy, adjusting them to prove the possibility of scientific-theoretical cognition and of overcoming psychologism and developing the logicistic approach to the critique of cognition. Each of the two authors developed their own “mechanism” ...
Who is Rationalising? On an Overlooked Problem for Kant’s Moral Psychology and Method of Ethics
... rationalises. Rather, we must look for patterns.
Ackeren, M. van and Sticker, M., 2015. Kant on Moral Demandingness. Ethical Theory and Moral Practice, 18(1), pp. 75-89.
Ackeren, M. van and Sticker, M., 2018. Moral Rationalism and Demandingness in Kant. Kantian Review, 23(3), pp. 407-428.
Allais, L., 2016. Kant’s Racism. Philosophical Papers, 45(1-2), pp. 1-36.
Allais, L., 2021. Deceptive Unity and Productive Disunity: Kant’s Account of Situated Moral Selves. In: A. Lyssy, C. Yeomans, eds. Kant on ...
Breakthrough in Chinese Kant Scholarship. Interview with Prof. Deng Xiaomang
... three Critiques translated in their entirety from the German originals. This interview tracks his scholarship, placing it within the broader scope of historical and contemporary Kant scholarship in China. Among the topics addressed, the reception of Kantian philosophy among the so called “New Confucians”, as well as the utility of Kantian thought as a tool for the reformation of traditional Confucian culture, are given considerable attention. Professor Deng also shares some thoughts on the process ...
The Emergence of Onto-Gnoseology among Russian Intuitivists as Criticism of Neo-Kantianism
... (Askoldov), S. A., 1914. Mysl i deistvitelnost’ [The Thought and the Reality]. Moscow: Put’. (In Rus.)
Berdnikova, A. Yu., 2017. ‘Back To Kant’ or ‘Back To Leibnitz’? A Critical View from the History of Russian Metaphysical Personalism. Kantian Journal, 36(2), pp. 33-45. (In Rus.)
Beshkareva, I. Yu., 2016. Intuitionism in Russian philosophy: Lossky and Frank. In: V. P. Filatov, ed., 2016. Nikolai Onufrievich Lossky. Moscow: Politicheskaya enciklopediya, pp. 147-155. (In Rus.)
Cohen, ...
Kant on Human Dignity: Autonomy, Humanity, and Human Rights
This paper explores the new frontier within Kantian scholarship which suggests that Kant places so much special importance on the value of rational nature that the supreme principle of morality and the concept of human dignity are both grounded on it. Advocates of this reading argue that the notion ...
The Notion of Free Will in Sergey Hessen’s Conception of Culture
... 2009. Neo-Kantianism. In: A. Tucker, ed. 2009. A Companion to the Philosophy of History and Historiography. Chichester: Wiley-Blackwell, pp. 477-487.
Belov, V. N., 2016. (Book Review) Yu. Melikh. Irrational Expansion of Kant’s Philosophy in Russia. Kantian Journal, 4(35), pp. 103-105. (In Russ.)
Crowe, B., 2010. Faith and Value: Heinrich Rickert’s Theory of Religion. Journal of the History of Ideas, 4(41), pp. 617-636.
Dmitrieva, N. A., 2013. The Concept of A priori in German and Russian Neo-Kantianism....
Report of the ‘Transcendental Turn in Contemporary Philosophy 2’ International Seminar (Moscow, 27—29 April 2017)
... (4) to examine the concepts of appearance and phenomenon in relation to Husserl’s transcendental phenomenology.
Hanna, R. 2017, Kant, Radical Agnosticism, and Methodological Eliminativism about Things-in-themselves, in: Contemporary studies in Kantian Philosophy. no. 2, pp. 38—54.
Howell, R. 2017, Analytic Work on Kant — Idealism, Things-in-themselves, and the Object of Knowledge, in: Kantovsky sbornik [Kantian Journal], vol. 36, no. 4, pp. 31—50. (In Russ.)
Jacobi, F. H. 1994, David ...
Vivos Voco. Post-war Correspondence between Sergey Hessen and Ivan Lapshin: Year 1946
... valuable in reconstructing the conception of the texts which were not completed at the time of their death and have survived only in the shape of plans and rough notes. It is also interesting that in their letters Hessen and especially Lapshin expound the Kantian element of their philosophical views as well as sharing their impressions of the development of philosophy in the middle of the twentieth century.
Barsova, L. G., ed. 2006. Neizdannyi Ivan Lapshin [The Unpublished Ivan Lapshin]. St. Petersburg: ...
The Boundaries of Ecological Ethics: Kant’s Philosophy in Dialog with the “End of Human Exclusiveness” Thesis
... and Culture in Kant’s Third Critique. Philosophica, 48(1), pp. 31-45.
Denis, L., 2000. Kant’s Conception of Duties regarding Animals: Reconstruction and Reconsideration. History of Philosophy Quarterly, 17(4), pp. 405-423.
Gillroy, J. M., 1998. Kantian Ethics and Environmental Policy Argument: Autonomy, Ecosystem Integrity, and Our Duties to Nature. Ethics and the Environment, 3(2), pp. 131-155.
Gilson, É., 1971. D’Aristote à Darwin et retour. Essai sur quelques constantes de la biophilosophie....
Tool-Kit for Ethical Analysis of Video Games: Answer to the Challenges of the New Enlightenment
... status in the world. They stress the need to enhance the responsibility of the individual so that each individual becomes conscious of sharing the destiny of the whole of mankind and the world. I argue that in the framework of Enlightenment 2.0 the Kantian concept of social development, which is closely linked with the moral ideal — the kingdom of ends — may form the basis of the concept of society in which individual freedom and social development are interconnected and the mutually determining ...
Constructive Thinking in the Critical Philosophy of Hermann Cohen
Constructive (productive) thinking in the critical philosophy of Hermann Cohen differs significantly from the seemingly similar speculative thinking in J. G. Fichte’s Science of Knowledge (Wissenschaftslehre) (1794/95). The fundamental characteristics of scientific thinking in Cohen’s teaching include: purity, focus on the “fact of science”, the origin (Ursprung), the infinitesimal method, continuity, movement, production, correlation, intensive magnitude, interrelation of thinking and being...
Kant and His Heritage in Belarusian Philosophy of the Soviet and Post-Soviet Periods
... Kant’s philosophy by thinkers in pre-Soviet Belarus has been the subject of not a few publications. They described the reception of his seminal ideas, the analysis, polemic and occasionally sharp criticism of these ideas. It is helpful now to look at Kantian studies beginning from the 1920s to the present time. I will show that immediately after the October 1917 revolution and until the 1930s interest in Kant’s teaching was waning. When they turned to his ideas during that period Belarusian authors ...
Kantian Rationality in the Philosophy of Science. Report of the First Conference of the Kantian Rationality Lab.
The international conference “Kantian Rationality in Philosophy of Science” was held on 9–11 October 2020 at the Immanuel Kant Baltic Federal University (IKBFU) in Kaliningrad. Fifteen participants from different countries discussed aspects of the Kantian understanding of science ...
Kant über inneren Sinn, Zeitanschauung und Selbstaffektion
... subjektive Zeit. Untersuchungen zu Kants Zeittheorie und zu ihrer modernen kritischen Rezeption. Kant-Studien, 71(1), S. 1-34.
Dyck, C. W., 2006. Empirical Consciousness Explained: Self-Affection, (Self-) Consciousness and Perception in the B-Deduction. Kantian Review, 11(1), pp. 29-54.
Enskat, R., 2020. Kant über Sein und Zeit und Denken und Sein. Selbsterkenntnis durch Selbstaffektion. Kantian Journal, 39(3), S. 7-23.
http://dx.doi.org/10.5922/0207-6918-2020-3-1
Friedman, M., 1992. Kant and the Exact ...
Georges Gurvitch and Sergey Hessen on the Possibility of Forming Social Unity
... Warszawa: Książnica-Atlas.
Hessen, S. I., 1999. State of Law and Socialism. In: S. I. Hessen, 1999. Izbrannye sochineniya [Selected Writings]. Moscow: ROSSPEN, pp. 147-542. (In Rus.)
Hessen, S. I., 2012. Modern Democracy (translated by N. V. Danilkina). Kantian Journal, 1(39), pp. 75-84. (In Rus.)
Kornilaev, L. Yu., 2019. The Specifics of Criticism on E. Lask’s Philosophy in Russia. Voprosy Filosofii, 12, pp. 132-144.
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Lask, E., 1923. Die Logik der Philosophie ...
The Real Target of Kant’s “Refutation”
... “Refutation of Idealism. Kant-Studien, 70, pp. 259-278.
Bader, R. M., 2012. The Role of Kant’s Refutation of Idealism. Archiv für Geschichte der Philosophie, 94(1), pp. 53-73.
Bardon, A., 2004. Kant’s Empiricism in his Refutation of Idealism. Kantian Review, 8, pp. 62-88.
Bennett, J., 1966. Kant’s Analytic. New York: Cambridge University Press.
Caranti, L., 2017. Kant and the Scandal of Philosophy. Toronto: University of Toronto Press.
Chignell, A., 2010. Causal Refutations of Idealism....
Kantian Transcendentalism in Contemporary Philosophical Discussions. Report of the “Transcendental Turn in Contemporary Philosophy-3” International Workshop
... centred around the main problems of transcendentalism: the differences between the phenomenon and the thing in itself, between the first and second editions of the Critique of Pure Reason, the relationship between realist and constructivist aspects of Kantian transcendentalism, the transformation of Kantian transcendental philosophy in Neo-Kantianism and phenomenology and more.
Husserl, E., 1984. Logische Untersuchungen, Band II/2. In: U. Panzer, ed. 1984. Husserliana. Gesammelte Werke. Band XIX/1,...
Types of Representational Content in Kant
...., 2009. Kant, Non-Conceptual Content and the Representation of Space. Journal of the History of Philosophy, 47(3), pp. 383-413.
Allais, L., 2016. Conceptualism and Nonconceptualism in Kant: A Survey of the Recent Debate. In: D. Schulting, ed. 2016. Kantian Nonconceptualism. London: Palgrave, pp. 1-25.
Allison, H. E., 1973. The Kant-Eberhard Controversy. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press.
Allison, H. E., 1985. The Originality of Kant’s Distinction between Analytic and Synthetic Judgments....
Kantian Ethical Humanism in Late Imperial Russia
... commitment to justice and respect for all human beings. However, the arguably most historically significant Christian humanist in this era was Vladimir S. Solovyov, who went on to combine influences from Slavophilism and the third type of humanism, Kantian humanism. This third type of humanism professedly relied on reason alone, not metaphysical foundations. Solovyov, however, ultimately grounded his moral doctrine in a highly metaphysical all-unity, which he saw as Reason — note the capital “R” ...
Legal Consciousness at the Early Stage of Personality Development from the Perspective of Russian Neo-Kantian Philosophy of Pedagogy
... sovremennogo obrazovaniya [Problems of Modern Education], [e-journal] 5, pp. 26-32. (In Russ.)
3. Dmitrieva, N. A., 2016. Around the “Social Pedagogy” of Paul Natorp: Vladimir Dinze in the Debates on National Upbringing. Part 1. Kantovsky sbornik [Kantian Journal], 35(4), pp. 38-55. (In Russ.)
4. Dmitrieva, N. A., 2017. Around the “Social Pedagogy” of Paul Natorp: Vladimir Dinze in the Debates on National Upbringing. Part 2. Kantovsky sbornik [Kantian Journal], 36(1), pp. 66-89. (In Russ.)
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Affection of Law: Fichte on the Place and Boundaries of Pure Ethics of the Imperative
In his popular 1806 lectures on religion Fichte considered five possible worldviews in the second of which, “the standpoint of legality”, one can readily recognise the ethics of law of the Stoical and Kantian type. Fichte stresses that in his youth he himself shared this worldview. However, he hastens to adduce a series of original arguments to show that this position is essentially incapable of delivering a pure and higher moral doctrine. I examine ...
“The Turn towards Ontology” in Russian Neo-Kantianism in the Late 1910s and Early 1920s (Lev Salagov and Nikolai Boldyrev)
... same period in West European philosophy, including German Neo-Kantianism. However, the concepts of Russian Neo-Kantians, which imply a new orientation towards ontology, are fairly independent, and not only on account of the original interpretation of Kantian critical philosophy and Neo-Kantian epistemology, but also on account of internal discussion with the Russian philosophers belonging to other movements (for example, intuitivists). The analysis of the onto-epistemological projects of Russian Neo-Kantians ...
Kant and new mathematics 100 years later
... in foundations of mathematics such as category theory, topos theory, and Univalent Foundations may help to improve the situation in the near future. The problem of applicability of new mathematical knowledge in science and technology shows that the Kantian approach in phi-losophy of mathematics is at least partly relevant to today’s mathematics.
1. Арнольд В. И. О преподавании математики // Успехи математических наук 1998. № 1 (53). С....
Neo-Kantian and phenomenological axiology in N. N. Alekseev’s philosophy of law
This paper analyzes receptions of phenomenological and neo-Kantian axiology trends in the interpretation of the concept and status of value in N. N. Alekseev’s philosophy of law. The author identifies the role of Neo-Kantian nomothetic—idiographic division of sciences proposed by the Southwest German school of Neo-Kantianism in interpreting the essence of law within Aleseev’s philosophy. It is shown that Alekseev uses Windelband's distinction between the due and the existing as a convenient...
The Problem of the Possibility of an Artificial Moral Agent in the Context of Kant’s Practical Philosophy
... Creating an Ethical Intelligent Agent. AI Magazine, 28(4), pp. 15-26.
https://doi.org/10.1609/aimag.v28i4.2065
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Bostrom, N., 2014. Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Benossi, L. and Bernecker, S., 2022. A Kantian Perspective on Robot Ethics. In: H. Kim and D. Schönecker, ed. 2022. Kant and Artificial Intelligence. Berlin & Boston: De Gruyter, pp. 147-169.
https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110706611-005
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Butler, J., 2022. Sila nenasiliya: Stsepka etiki i politiki ...
Semyon Frank and the German Neo-Kantianism: Aspects of Debate
The widespread assessment of the early period of Semyon L. Frank’s work as being influenced by German Neo-Kantianism is in need of a critical scrutiny. There are several reasons why the Russian philosopher’s interest in Neo-Kantianism merits a closer look. First, two systemic theories belonging to different trends exerted a decisive influence on Russian philosophy in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries: German Neo-Kantianism and Vladimir Solovyov’s school of all-unity. Second...
Categorical Moral Requirements
..., exploring his idea that moral requirements “silence” other considerations and discussing its particularist ethos, I address an objection that moral reasons, as McDowell conceives them, are fundamentally incomplete in ways only a full-bloodedly Kantian appeal to pure practical reason can remedy. I conclude that the objection fails: ordinary moral reasons do not stand in need of a grounding in Reason. There is no prospect of deriving them from a supreme principle of morality or other canons of ...