“euthanasia in reason-based deontologism of kant”

KANT AND THE DISCIPLINE OF REASON Brian

the published version, available at http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/ejop.12064/abstract, which differs in the standard ways (formatting, pagination, small grammatical corrections, etc.) from the draft. KANT AND THE DISCIPLINE OF REASON Brian A. Chance Abstract: Kant’s notion of ‘discipline’ has received considerable attention from scholars of his philosophy of education, but its rol...

Schopenhauer’s Contraction of Reason: Clarifying Kant and Undoing German Idealism

Schopenhauer’s claim that the essence of the world consists in Wille encounters well known difficulties. Of particular importance is the conflict of this metaphysical claim with his restrictive account of conceptuality. This paper attempts to make sense of Schopenhauer’s position by restoring him to the context of post-Kantian debate, with special attention to the early notebooks and Fourfold R...

Kant and the Ground(s) of Dignity: The Centrality of the Fact of Reason

Kant famously claims that autonomy is the ground of dignity. If he is correct about the grounding relationship, then doubts about our autonomy entail doubts about our dignity. Here, I attempt to show that Kant is sensitive to this problem, and invokes the ‘fact of reason’ (Faktum der Vernunft) as the key piece of evidence for our autonomy, and therefore our dignity. But as is well known, Kant’s...

the difference between "understanding" and "reason" in kant's terminology

while kant presupposes the existence of science and ethic, he studies their boundaries and limits as well. for doing this, he applies two terms and expressions, i.e., “reason” and “understanding”. in this paper, we take a look at the definitions of those two concepts in kant’s terminology within the approach that discriminates their differences. at first, the placement of these two faculties in...

THE CONUNDRUM OF EUTHANASIA

a corpus-based study of the frequency of personal pronouns in translated and comparable non-translated persian texts

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