There are deep, insurmountable difficulties with the traditional interpretation of Immanuel Kantâ??s writings on the subject of punishment. Although it is undeniable that throughout his published writings on practical philosophy â?? and in particular in his Metaphysics of Morals â?? he consistently advocates for the view that punishment can only be justified as a direct response to an individua...

Militarized interstate disputes are widely thought to be less likely among democratic countries that have high levels of trade and extensive participation in international organizations. We reexamine this broad finding of the Kantian peace literature in the context of a model that incorporates the high degree of dependency among countries. Based on in-sample statistical tests, as well as out-of...

The aim of the paper is threefold. Its first aim is to defend Eric Watkins's claim that for Kant, a cause is not an event but a causal power: a power that is borne by a substance, and that, when active, brings about its effect, i.e. a change of the states of another substance, by generating a continuous flow of intermediate states of that substance. The second aim of the paper is to argue again...

Today, migration has become one of the main challenges for humanity. In last ten years, percentage displaced people gradually increased, mainly from southern hemisphere to north, in search better living conditions and, many cases, forced by risks and instability their countries origin. The COVID-19 pandemic, far minimizing migrations, further exacerbated these processes. light this situation, s...

The recently detected South African variant, Covid-19, 501Y.V2 is more transmissible, though not virulent as the initial strain.1 morbidity and mortality rates due to this variant have risen exponentially, putting huge pressure on healthcare system, locally globally. As a consequence government imposed hard lockdown measures (level 3) means curb pandemic. Governments around world are scrambling...

In this paper I explore Kant’s critical discussions of the topic of miracles (including the important but neglected fragment from the 1780s called “On Miracles”) in an effort to answer the question in the title. Along the way I discuss some of the different kinds of “laws” in Kant’s system, and also the argument for his claim that, even if empirical miracles do occur, we will never be in a good...

Gerald Gaus’ book The Order of Public Reason is one of the most interesting manifestations of a recent trend in moral and political philosophy. Following Rawls it blends Kantian and non-Kantian approaches supplying at least some prominent schools of moral and political philosophy with a much needed patch of overlapping consensus. In particular, Humean and Kantian considerations are merged in a ...

Schopenhauer’s claim that the essence of the world consists in Wille encounters well known difficulties. Of particular importance is the conflict of this metaphysical claim with his restrictive account of conceptuality. This paper attempts to make sense of Schopenhauer’s position by restoring him to the context of post-Kantian debate, with special attention to the early notebooks and Fourfold R...

FULGENCIO, Leopoldo. Kantian foundations of Freudian Psychoanalysis and the place of metapsychology in the development of psychoanalysis. Psicol. USP [online]. 2007, vol.18, n.1, pp. 37-56. ISSN 0103-6564. http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/S0103-65642007000100003. This study intends to show that Freud’s references to Kant do not refer to specifi c points or themes, but that Freud constructed psychoanal...

Prominent evolutionary theories of morality maintain that the adaptations that underlie moral judgment and behavior function, at least in part, to deliver benefits (or prevent harm) to others. These explanations are based on the theories of kin selection and reciprocal altruism, and they predict that moral systems are designed to maximize Hamiltonian inclusive fitness. In sharp contrast, howeve...