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Free Download Beatrix Himmelmann, "The Court of Reason: Proceedings of the 13th International Kant Congress"
English | ISBN: 3110700700 | 2021 | 885 pages | EPUB | 4 MB
The Proceedings present the contributions to the 13th International Kant Congress which was held at the University of Oslo, August 6-9, 2019. The congress, which hosted speakers from more than thirty countries and five continents, was dedicated to the topic of the court of reason. The idea that reason stands before itself as a tribunal characterizes the whole of Kant’s critical project. Without such a court, reason falls into conflict with itself. With such a court in place, however, it may succeed in establishing the possibility and limits of metaphysics, ethics, aesthetics, law and science. The idea of reason being its own judge is not only pivotal to a proper understanding of Kant’s philosophy, but can also shed light on the burgeoning fields of meta-philosophy and philosophical methodology. The 2019 Kant Congress put special emphasis on Kant’s methodology, his account of conceptual critique, and the relevance of his ideas to current issues in especially political philosophy and the philosophy of law. Additional sections discussed a wide range of topics in Kant’s philosophy.

Free Download Michael Frauchiger, "Reason, Justification, and Contractualism: Themes from Scanlon "
English | ISBN: 3110738430 | 2021 | 170 pages | EPUB | 1263 KB
This book collects major original essays developed from lectures given at the award of the Lauener Prize 2016 to T. M. Scanlon for his outstanding oeuvre in Analytical philosophy. In Contractualism and Justification, Scanlon identifies some difficulties in his theory and explores possible ways to deal with them. In Improving Scanlon’s Contractualism, D. Parfit recommends revisions and extensions of Scanlon’s theory, while R. Forst suggests in Justification Fundamentalism that Scanlon may want to replace reason with justification as his foundational concept. T. Nagel raises fundamental questions concerning Moral Reality and Moral Progress, and S. Mantel offers in On How to Explain Rational Motivation a critical discussion of Scanlon’s cognitivist theory of motivation. Z. Stemplowska does the same for Scanlon’s conception of responsibility in Substantive Responsibility and the Causal Thesis, and S. Olsaretti suggests in Equality of Opportunity and Justified Inequalities an alternative to Scanlon’s arguments against economic inequalities. All contributors receive extensive replies by Scanlon. For anyone interested in Scanlon’s seminal work in moral and political philosophy, the present volume is utterly indispensable.

Free Download Foucault and Political Reason By Barry, Andrew(Editor);Osborne, Thomas(Editor);Rose, Nikolas(Editor)
1996 | 278 Pages | ISBN: 1857284313 | PDF | 17 MB
These twelve essays provide a critical introduction to Foucault’s work on politics, exploring its relevance to past and current thinking about liberal and neo-liberal forms of government. Moving away from the great texts of liberal political philosophy, this book looks closely at the technical means with which the ideals of liberal political rationalities have been put into practice in such areas as schools, welfare, the insurance industry, and the self-esteem movement in California.

Free Download Violence – Reason – Fear: Interdisciplinary approaches and theoretical approaches
English | 2023 | ISBN: 3658408855 | 335 Pages | PDF EPUB (True) | 4 MB
The book explores the question of the significance of fear and reason in the context of cultural violence and subjective different experiences of violence. Perspectives from the social sciences, educational philosophy and cultural studies open up an interdisciplinary approach to violence of culture and media, the experience of fear and vulnerability as well as strangeness and rage.

Free Download The Reason of the Gift By Jean-Luc Marion
2011 | 119 Pages | ISBN: 0813931789 | PDF | 2 MB
This book represents a continuation of Jean-Luc Marion’s work on givenness as a foundational concept. A former student of Jacques Derrida, Marion is known for his work in seventeenth-century French philosophy, for his theory of "God without being," and for his reformulation of phenomenology. Marion’s groundbreaking work on givenness is articulated through attentive readings in a striking array of philosophical texts. The four pieces collected here, based on the fall 2008 Richard Lectures at the University of Virginia, expand upon and go beyond the lines of Marion’s previous work and exemplify the intersection of his own constructive brilliance with his talent and rigor as a historian of philosophy. Reengaging philosophers long central to Marion’s own work (Husserl, Heidegger, Levinas) and highlighting the significance of lesser-known but decisive influences (Natorp, Rickert, Meinong), these lectures will be valuable to readers interested in the ongoing conversation seeking to bridge the divide between Continental and analytic philosophies, particularly through the exploration of common points of origin. These pieces tackle some of the most pressing debates in contemporary European philosophy and offer students of Marion material to ponder as they seek to further understand his influences. Taken together, these essays form an important volume by a major figure in contemporary philosophy.

Free Download Christopher Wolfe, "Natural Law and Public Reason"
English | 2000 | pages: 215 | ISBN: 0878407669, 0878407650 | PDF | 24,2 mb
"Public reason" is one of the central concepts in modern liberal political theory. As articulated by John Rawls, it presents a way to overcome the difficulties created by intractable differences among citizens’ religious and moral beliefs by strictly confining the place of such convictions in the public sphere.

Free Download Daniel Mahoney, "Political Reason in the Age of Ideology: Essays in Honor of Raymond Aron"
English | ISBN: 113851330X | 2017 | 330 pages | PDF | 2 MB
A little over one hundred years after his birth, and not quite twenty-five years since his death, interest in the French political philosopher and sociologist Raymond Aron (1905-1983) continues to grow. Aron is now widely recognized as one of the most significant intellectual figures of the postwar period, whose wide-ranging reflections played a key part in preserving liberal democracy in Europe and abroad. His sober analyses of modern society, his trenchant critique of ideological politics and every form of totalitarianism, and his philosophical reflections on politics and history have given powerful support to democratic liberalism throughout the western world. Aron’s work combines passion and observation, disinterested reflection and love of liberty in a way that is an imitable model for humane and balanced political reflection.

Free Download Paul Helm, "Reason in the Service of Faith: Collected Essays of Paul Helm"
English | ISBN: 0754662195 | 2023 | 456 pages | PDF | 5 MB
Paul Helm is a distinguished philosopher, with particular interests in the philosophy of religion. His work covers some of the most important aspects of the field as it has developed in the last thirty years with particular contributions to metaphysics, religious epistemology, and philosophical theology. In celebration of Helm’s life’s work, Reason in the Service of Faith brings together a range of his essays which reflect these central concerns of his thought.

Free Download Decisions about Decisions: Practical Reason in Ordinary Life
English | 2023 | ISBN: 1009400460 | 223 Pages | PDF | 1.2 MB
Here is one of the most fundamental questions in human life: How do we decide how we decide? We make such decisions all the time. If you trust your doctor, you might decide to follow a simple rule for medical decisions: Do whatever your doctor suggests. If you like someone a lot, and maybe love them, but are not sure whether you want to marry them, you might do this: Live with them first. Some of these strategies are wise. They prevent error. They improve your emotional well-being. Some of these strategies are foolish. They lead you in the direction of terrible mistakes. They prevent you from learning. They might make you miserable. Decisions about Decisions explores how people do, and should, make decisions about decisions. It aims to see what such decisions are, to explore how they go right, and see where they go wrong.

Free Download M.E. Bradford, "A Better Guide Than Reason: Federalists and Anti-federalists "
English | ISBN: 013873688X | 2018 | 240 pages | PDF | 2 MB
In this seminal volume, M. E. Bradford defines the Old Whig political tradition in American thought, showing that the inheritance of the prescriptive anti-federalists still lives. For Bradford, important elements in our heritage from the American Revolution have been systematically hidden from our view by anachronistic and partisan scholarship. He believes that other, more ideological components have been emphasized at the expense of the rest. Here he attempts to return us to our heritage.