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Review Of Roger J. Sullivan, An Introduction To Kant's Ethics (1994), Harry Van Der Linden
Review Of Roger J. Sullivan, An Introduction To Kant's Ethics (1994), Harry Van Der Linden
Harry van der Linden
Harry van der Linden's review of: Roger Sullivan, An Introduction to Kant's Ethics. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 1994, viii + 183 pages.
Kant, The Duty To Promote International Peace, And Political Intervention, Harry Van Der Linden
Kant, The Duty To Promote International Peace, And Political Intervention, Harry Van Der Linden
Harry van der Linden
Kant argues that it is the duty of humanity to strive for an enduring peace between the nations. For Kant, political progress within each nation is essential to realizing lasting peace, and so one would expect him to view political intervention- defined as coercive interference by one nation, or some of its citizens, with the affairs of another nation in order to bring about political improvements in that nation-as justified in some cases.! Kant, however, explicitly rejects all intervention by force, and some aspects of his work support an unqualified prohibition of political intervention. In this paper I will examine …
Review Of Kenneth Baynes, The Normative Grounds Of Social Criticism: Kant, Rawls, And Habermas (1992), Harry Van Der Linden
Review Of Kenneth Baynes, The Normative Grounds Of Social Criticism: Kant, Rawls, And Habermas (1992), Harry Van Der Linden
Harry van der Linden
Baynes's two main objectives are to show that Kant, Rawls, and Habermas share the view that "the idea of an agreement among free and equal persons [i. e., autonomous persons] ... constitutes the normative ground of social criticism" (p. 8), and that this "constructivist" view is more adequately developed and defended with each successive theorist. The study, however, goes beyond these aims and can often fruitfully be read as a comparative study of Rawls and Habermas.