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"An Almost Single Inference": Kant's Deduction Of The Categories Reconsidered, Konstantin Pollok
"An Almost Single Inference": Kant's Deduction Of The Categories Reconsidered, Konstantin Pollok
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By taking into account some texts published between the first and the second edition of the Critique of Pure Reason that have been neglected by most of those who have dealt with the deduction of the categories, I argue that the core of the deduction is to be identified as the 'almost single inference from the precisely determined definition of a judgment in general,' which Kant adumbrates in the Metaphysical Foundations in order to 'make up for the deficiency' of the A-deduction. Whereas the first step of the B-deduction is an attempt to show that the manifold of an intuition …
Is The Automobile Essential To Freedom?: Yes!, Rolf A. Jacobson
Is The Automobile Essential To Freedom?: Yes!, Rolf A. Jacobson
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Book Review: Nanoethics: The Ethical And Social Implications Of Nanotechnology, Kevin Elliott
Book Review: Nanoethics: The Ethical And Social Implications Of Nanotechnology, Kevin Elliott
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Can Virtue Be Taught?, Glenn Rawson
Can Virtue Be Taught?, Glenn Rawson
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One of Plato's liveliest Socratic dialogues, the Protagoras, stages a debate between the greatest philosopher and the greatest sophist of their time, with other leading sophists in the audience. The debate concerns Protagoras' own specialty: the teaching of 'virtue ' or arete, a crucial term in ancient Greece that involves both moral goodness and human greatness. Protagoras and Socrates end up with oddly overlapping intellectual positions: Socrates contends that virtue is not something that's taught, though h e believes that all of virtue is essentially a kind of knowledge. Protagoras denies that all virtues are forms of knowledge, though he …