A Question and Kant, Durkheim and Causality

So for my current MLA course entitled "Meaning and Motive in the Social Sciences," we're reading Durkheim's The Elementary Forms of Religious Life. Upon reading the opening pages of the book, I was extremely skeptical almost immediately, mostly I think because of the following claim made in the introduction: "At the root of our judgments, there are … Continue reading A Question and Kant, Durkheim and Causality →

A Gauntlet

Anyone (I'm looking at you, Nates) care to defend Kant against these charges: http://schwitzsplinters.blogspot.com/2010/03/kant-on-killing-bastards-on.html I must confess that it's hard to square conventional wisdom that Kant is one of if not the greatest moral philosopher ever with moral beliefs like the ones expressed in these passages.

Uncle’s Dream (and the Kant issue resolved!)

[Resuming the Dostoevsky-Frank reading project after a 14 day hiatus] After Dostoevsky finished his Siberian prison term, he was transferred into the military, and lived a life that was at least nominally more free than that while in actual captivity. He was to serve for as long as the Czar desired. He tried to get himself … Continue reading Uncle’s Dream (and the Kant issue resolved!) →