Kant's "Metaphysics of Permanent Rupture" Radical Evil and the Unity of Reason

Overcoming of Metaphysics: Heidegger's Interpretation of Kant's Thought and the Problem of Metaphysics

Kant on mental disorder. Part 2: philosophical implications of Kant's account.

This paper considers various philosophical problems arising from Kant's account of mental disorder. Starting with the reasons why Kant considered his theory of mental disorder important, I then turn to the implications of this theory of Kant's metaphysics, epistemology and ethics. Given Kant's account of insanity as 'a totally different standpoint... from which one sees all objects differently'...

Assessing Kant's Master Argument: a review essay on Robert Howell's Kant's Transcendental Deduction

Robert Howell's Kant's Transcendental Deduction is one of the most impressive works ever produced on the Transcendental Deduction in particular, and on Kant's metaphysics and epistemology more generally. Howell's main project is to set out the possible interpretations of the first half of Kant's B-Deduction, distinguishing the possible readings of its premises, and then to evaluate the resultin...

The Problem of Evil in the Thought of Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Throughout all of Rousseau’s works there is tension between reason and conscience. Reason binds men when they think correctly, but divides them when they place it at the service of self-interest. Conversely, the universality of conscience is immediate and transparent: it transmits the truth of the existence of God and of the universal principles that underlie human action, despite the differenc...

Human Beings and the Moral Law: Moral Precariousness in Kant's Ethical Philosophy

ABSTRACT HUMAN BEINGS AND THE MORAL LAW: MORAL PRECARIOUSNESS IN KANT'S ETHICAL PHILOSOPHY Bradley M. Taylor Dr. Paul Guyer This dissertation is an examination of human moral precariousness in Kant's ethics. Human beings are in a state of moral precariousness insofar as they are ever-capable of transgressing the moral law and are often uncertain of the moral worth of their actions. Put another ...