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My argument proceeds in the following stages. First, I argue that, pace Beiser, Fichte does not actually hold the sort of moral ultrarationalism attributed to him by Schiller. Following a brief discussion of the Kantian background to Fichte's moral philosophy, I show that he rejects this ultra-rationalism because it violates the requirements of moral agency, and so furnishes agents with aims that they cannot coherently pursue. Adapting the formal structure of Kant's "highest good" in his own way, Fichte presents what he calls a "real" ethics as an alternative to both rationalism and naturalism. Fichte's overriding concern in both instances is with agent unity, with the harmonization of the two sides of our Uves as moral agents, viz., sensibiUty and rationaUty. This is a concern that run...
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ISBN: 9780754660583
TITLE: Intentionality, deliberation, and autonomy; the action-theoretic basis of practical philosophy.
AUTHOR: Ed. by Christoph Lu...
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According to Barnes, the social dimension of scientific deliberation changes much that we have thought in philosophy about how evidence relates to theory. Unless background beliefs already provide it strong support, endorsement without new information would seem to discredit the endorser. [...] background beliefs that are so rich raise the same problem; why were they endorsed if not pursuant to their own novel successes?
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... understood to include autonomous deliberation and reactions, practical judgment, and moral relat... 207 (1993), reprinted in JOSHUA COHEN, PHILOSOPHY, POLITICS, DEMOCRACY 98, 114-20 (2009) [hereinafte...
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..., or deliberative, turn in political philosophy suggests a different route, according to which the... of how the crisis situation affects deliberations in the public sphere. Thus, we have seen that the ...
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You might want to be sitting down when you read Carlin Romano's news. As the late great Freddie Mercury might have said "he will rock you." His news in this book is a head-rocker and a complete contradiction of everything you're likely to believe true.
In his words, then, because he tells his story best:
..."The story of philosophy in America is not a short subject about a narrow t... as "civilized discourse" and "public deliberation" aimed at "persuasion about great matters," his "v...
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... as potent agents of public deliberation. However, before December 2002, bloggers toiled in... adapted the flooding the zone philosophy in the coverage of Enron's collapse and the Columb...
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... on reasoned and inclusive public deliberation that is geared to reaching consensual decisions. H... his work and has rejected any philosophy of history that stipulates a teleological narrativ...
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... of these actors' interactions and deliberations. Most importantly, renovating the concept of trans... Polarization," Journal of Political Philosophy 10, no. 2 (2002): 175-195. . (15.) Robert Russell,...
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... perhaps both general judicial philosophy and thoughts on the proper resolution of certain c... judgment and constitutional deliberation. (226) . Another, older way of dealing with such c...