In this paper, I aim at relating passions to evil in Kant’s philosophy. I begin by explaining the difference between affects and passions in the text Anthropology from a Pragmatic Point of View. Kant claims that both affects and passions are illnesses of the mind, because both affect and passion hinder the sovereignty of reason. I show that passions are worse than affects for the purpose of pur...

For applications with certain properties (well-defined technical domain, technical vocabulary, simple grammatical style), use of a controlled language can enhance the accuracy of knowledge-based machine translation (Baker, et al., 1994). In the continuing development of the KANT system (Mitamura, et al., 1991; Mitamura and Nyberg, 1995), we have explored different sublanguage techniques which l...

BOTANY AND CIVIC INSECURITY appear, at first glance, incompatible. Most plants are sedentary. Patience distinguishes those who study them. For Kant, flowers embodied the idea of an end in themselves: they exemplified the autonomy of the aesthetic. "Flowers are free beauties of nature," he wrote, classing flowers under the heading pulchritudo vap,a. He meant beauty that eludes utilitarian evalua...

the relationship between ethics and religion, which can be an issue in all the history of philosophy and philosophy in all systems studied. but the discussion of kant practical reason and its separation as a theoretical sense and followed by discussion of metaphysical and theological ethics and religion to the realm of practical reason bring about other effects found. although kant denies all a...

In the framework of his transcendental philosophy Kant strictly separates morality from aesthetics. The pleasure in the good and the pleasure in the beautiful are two different kinds of pleasure (zwei Arten des Wohlgefallens). As a consequence, a moral act as such cannot be beautiful. Only in a second step does Kant indicate possible connections between morality and aesthetics in his comments o...

The article by Professor Markovits 1 is thoughtful and careful perhaps painfully so but it simply and systematically ignores the human condition. The human condition is what law and law practice address, or, as they say these days, what law is "all about." The nonnative premise of Professor Markovits's analysis is that all realworld persons are equal. This premise is drawn chiefly from the phil...

O objetivo deste artigo é questionar a legitimidade da intervenção determinante filosofia de Kant sobre Maine Biran. Sustentaremos, nesta pesquisa, que o biranismo não uma espécie kantismo e as oposições do filósofo francês ao alemão são mais contundentes aparentes compatibilidades entre elas. Para comprovar essa proposição, demonstraremos teses biranianas essencialmente biranianas, contestando...