Kant

How do we make an informed moral decision? Kant offers a solution in his Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals. The Categorical Imperative (CI) is a universal command that we must follow, regardless of our desires, because it is our moral obligation (4:417). It compares our actions to a moral…

In Kant’s metaphysics, to apprehend the appearance of the object is to derive from cognition the presentation of an object in its experiential content connected through a concept which from this aspect would be able to secure an objective universality that is validated by everyone. In the same way in…

(this is the first jotted-down thoughts, a draft, of a longer piece). “To the bow [biós] is given the name of life [bíos] but its work is death” – Heraclitus. A friend told me last week: you think too much, you’re obsessionally trying to think about how to solve problems…

“Why do academic philosophers pay so little attention to phenomena like the modern Stoic movement?” This is a question many people ask you, if you stray between two worlds, from the Stoic side. …

A philosophical look into my own view of the idea of good and evil — I’m going to start by saying that I went down an insane philosophical rabbit hole to figure out how I wanted to respond to this. …

Hume, Kant, and Transcendental Knowledge This essay comes from a final that I wrote about the introduction of imagination and memory within Kant’s Critique of Judgment and Hume’s Treaties of Human Nature. This would often be considered an unlikely pairing of the two ideals, but I worked to find the…

“Oh, cosmological proof thou art dying Ever since the old critic has clipped thy wing!” But with a change of dress He ‘gain obtained access To the halls from which our Kant had banished him. And smuggled his dear brother back in as well Of whose wisdom the schoolmasters liked to tell But to their great dismay All was in disarray After the old Königsberger gave them hell. Now these two characters are all dressed anew And of the college professors not a few Flock to them to give praise And though forced to rephrase Give the same old stuff to their students to chew.

“Information is indeed conceptual. But meaninging is not; it is perception.” The essential Drucker, 2001, it’s a selection of hand-picked ‘best chapters’ by Peter Drucker from his 60 years of writing an immense amount of diverse topics: social commentary, academic works, business & management books. Chapter 26 of this book, ‘From Analysis to Perception’ — Is from his 1988 book The…

The concepts of morality and freedom appear contradictory. How can one act freely when there is only one moral action to take? Yet Kant asserts that a moral action and a free action are “one and the same” in his Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals. Through the analysis of…