Apologies for spelling errors in a recent post. It's actually "Henry Sidgewick" and Emile "Fackenheim." (Well, if you can't even spell their names right, Walter ...!) The latter used to be at the University of Toronto. I almost did a Hegel course with him but at the last minute decided to go with .... oh my god, I forgot his name! The course was held at Glendon College of York University in the Winter term of 1980 and the prof in question wrote a book on Hegel entitled *Towards the Sunlight*. With a ponytail longer than his memory, Walter O The Rock of St. Ivan's The Avalon P.S. Anyone going to the CPA Congress in Saskatoon next month? Quoting wokshevs@xxxxxx: > > OK, enough with the Heidegger schwaermerei. > > I've recently been told about a complaint that Henry Sidgwick (and > Falkenheim, > apparently) had regarding Kant's moral theory as presented in the Groundwork > and the second Critique. But my informant doesn't know where S. wrote about > it. > The criticism is that because the will is pure practical reason, any immoral > act is necessarily an unfree act and, as such, the agent cannot be held > responsible for her action. No moral imputability follows from Kant's > doctrine > of the "freedom" of the will. Later on, so the story goes, in the > *Metaphysics > of Morals* and *Religion*, Kant drew a distinction between Wille and > Willkuer > either because he changed his mind or because he wished to clarify his > intention in the above two texts. > > Does anyone know where Sidgwick develops this criticism? Is the criticism > valid? > Didn't Bernard Williams also have a similar criticism of Kant's moral > theory? > > Walter O. > MUN > > Quoting Phil Enns <phil.enns@xxxxxxxxxxx>: > > > Walter Okshevsky wrote: > > > > "Phil, you gotta get a (noumenal) life!" > > > > Too, too true. I do not hear pure sound, but a motorcycle passing by the > > window or wind through the trees. I am, sadly, enslaved to the > phenomenal, > > unable to participate in such flights of Reason. > > > > > > A soul in tension that's learning to fly > > Condition grounded but determined to try > > Can't keep my eyes from the circling skies > > Tongue-tied and twisted just an earth-bound misfit, I > > > > > > Comfortably numb in NS, > > > > Phil Enns > > ------------------------------------------------------------------ > > To change your Lit-Ideas settings (subscribe/unsub, vacation on/off, > > digest on/off), visit www.andreas.com/faq-lit-ideas.html > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------ To change your Lit-Ideas settings (subscribe/unsub, vacation on/off, digest on/off), visit www.andreas.com/faq-lit-ideas.html