The Revolutionary ‘Deception’: Kant on the Illusion of a Politics of Happiness
Could an ideal of happiness ever serve as a legitimate principle of public legislation? According to Kant, grounding public legislation on…
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Why Carl Schmitt (and others) got Kant wrong
This essay traces the influence of Carl Schmitt on an interpretative tendency found in a number of contemporary readings of Kant’s…
Are moral values facts? (Philosophy: A Visual Encyclopedia)
Thousands of years ago, ancient philosophers asked some important questions: “What is real?”, “What is everything made of?”…
Kant and Political Willing (PhD. Tesis)
This thesis makes two claims: first, that conflict is constitutive of human agency, and second, that this understanding of agency in terms of…
Debunking a Myth: Hugo Chavez & Venezuelan Socialism
Analysis | As a Venezuelan, I was always told that we were a rich country, but one where politicians looted the natural resources which…
Kant and Hegel: Revolution and the Politics of Fear
In this paper I argue that the political thought of Kant and Hegel contains a critique of revolution, based on their interpretation of the French case…
Theorising beyond dualism: the ‘person’, the ‘self’ and post-colonial mentality in Contemporary African Philosophy
Analysis | In February the LSE Department of Government hosted a two-day mini-course as part of a three-year Leverhulme Trust funded…