My purpose in this article is not to offer any original insights into Hegel’s ethics, but merely to provide a brief overview that draws upon the most reliable secondary sources. In order to help organize the material, I compare Hegel’s views with the communitarian critique of liberalism. Following this, there is a brief account of the relation between Hegel’s ethical and religious thought. Hege...

One of John McDowell’s central concerns is to understand the relation between mind and world, to understand intentionality. McDowell believes that ‘that there is no better way for us to approach an understanding of intentionality than by working toward understanding Kant’ (McDowell 1998: 432). McDowell also believes that this conviction is shared by Wilfrid Sellars and that ‘coming to terms wit...

“IF MY THESIS IS CORRECT, KANT WAS RIGHT”: REVISITING KANT’S ROLE WITHIN MACINTYRE’S CRITIQUE OF THE ENLIGHTENMENT PROJECT Although Alasdair MacIntyre’s After Virtue is famous for its critique of the Enlightenment project in moral theory, and although Immanuel Kant is usually considered the greatest protagonist of that project, Kant’s role within the argument of After Virtue is far less clear t...

In this paper, we describe the results of an exercise in applying the source language analyzer from the KANT system (Mitamura, et al. 1991; Nyberg et al., 1998) to the English version of the workshop newspaper article. We briefly present the architecture of the KANT system and the Interlingua format used in KANT. We describe how we adapted the analyzer in order to produce an Interlingua for eac...

the paper discusses study of kant's deontological ethics in organization and comparison of it with pillars of worldly ethic in organization and whether kant's ethics is compatible with them. kant's ethics is one of the most deontological theories in which intention and motive of action are basic roles. kant merely regarded the motive of action of moral rules, respect to them. kan...

We study the distribution in space of the integral solutions to an integral decomposable form equation, by considering the images of these solutions under central projection onto a unit ball. If we think of the solutions as stars in the night sky, we ask what constellations are visible from the earth (the unit ball). Answers are given for a large class of examples which are then illustrated usi...