In Germany, Otfried Höffe has been a leading contributor to debates in moral, legal, political, and social philosophy for close to three decades. Höffe's work (like that of his contemporary, Jürgen Habermas), brings into relief the relevance of these German discussions to their counterparts in English-language circles.In this book, originally published in Germany in 1990 and expanded since, Höffe proposes an extended and original interpretation of Kant philosophy of law, and social morality. Höffe articulates his reading of Kant in the context of an account of modernity as a "polyphonous project," in which the dominant themes of pluralism and empiricism are countered by the theme of categorically binding moral principles, such as human rights. Paying equal attention to the nuances of Kant's texts and the character of the philosophical issues in their own right, Höffe ends up with a Kantianism that requires, rather than precludes, a moral anthropology and that questions the fashionable juxtaposition of Kant and Aristotle as exemplars of incompatible approaches to ethical and political thought.
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Kantian theories of law and politics are not well understood in English-Language philosophy, which has tended to ignore Kant's actual writings on these topics in favor of his more foundational athical works, from which philosophers often draw erroneous inferences about what the 'Kantian' view must be on issues of applied ethics and political philosophy Hoffe's book is a much-needed presentation of a contemporary Kantian position by a leading German philosopher of law, containing a thoughtful critical response to the positions of Rawls and Habermas. Migotti's translation is smooth, accurate, and a scholarly achievement all by itself. --Allen Wood, Stanford University
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Otfried Hoffe is Professor of Philosophy at the Law School of the University of Tobingen. His books include Aristotle (SUNY, forthcoming). Mark Migotti is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Calgary.
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- Kant: The Metaphysics of Morals (Cambridge Texts in the History of Philosophy) by Immanuel Kant on 24 pages
- Perpetual Peace, and Other Essays on Politics, History, and Morals (HPC Classics Series) by Immanuel Kant on 14 pages
- Between Facts and Norms: Contributions to a Discourse Theory of Law and Democracy (Studies in Contemporary German Social Thought) by Jurgen Habermas on 13 pages
- Critique of Pure Reason (The Cambridge Edition of the Works of Immanuel Kant) by Immanuel Kant on 9 pages
- The Theory of Communicative Action: Lifeworld and Systems, a Critique of Functionalist Reason, Volume 2 by Jurgen Habermas (Professor of Philosophy Emeritus at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt); Translated by: Thomas McCarthy (Northwestern University) on 9 pages
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- Kant's Cosmopolitan Theory of Law and Peace (Modern European Philosophy) by Otfried Hoffe in Back Matter
- Kant (Routledge Philosophers) by Paul Guyer in Back Matter
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