Constitutional reforms and stability of the Сonstitution: balance finding problems
... perfection of the existing sub-constitutional normative legal acts, official and casual interpretation of the Constitution by the Constitutional Court of the Russian Federation. The author considers all proposals to revise the text of the Constitution groundless since the main law has not exhausted its potential. The evolutionary development of the supreme law, which is the key to the progressive development of both state and society, can be achieved through the application of the above forms, including ...
Reclaiming the “Cultural Mandate”: The Idea of Sustainable Development in the Kantian Perspective
... in which humanity exists. The authors of the report argue that the “old Enlightenment” with its individualism, faith in the market and a consumerist attitude to nature should be scrapped. I maintain that this assessment of Kant’s philosophy is groundless and that his ideas allow us both to conduct a more profound diagnosis of the crisis and to propose a more solidly founded strategy of overcoming it. First, I sum up the position of the authors concerning the loss of sustainability of development ...
Moral inscrutability and self-constitution in Kant (translated from the English by V. Belonogova and D. Khizanishvili, edited by V. Chaly)
... Kant, which undermines the philosopher’s earlier comparison of freedom with morality (the so called “reciprocity thesis”) — a fact often ignored in secondary sources.
Gesinnung, inscrutability, self-constitution, moral self-presupposition, groundlessness
Muchnik P.
17-38
10.5922/0207-6918-2014-4-2
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