Kantian Care

Varden, Helga

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“…44This is, of course, not to say that all sexual or erotic pleasure aims at orgasms. For more on these topics, see Varden (2020b). …”

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“…66Varden (2020b) presents another interpretation of the sage, namely as a moral ideal that we admire when we see it instantiated, such as in the Dalai Lama, but it would be a mistake to infer from this that the sage is the human ideal we should all strive to realise. For discussion on this point, see the interchange between Janelle DeWitt and myself in SGIR Review (Varden, 2021b).…”

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“…1111For Kant's account of the predisposition to good in human nature, see Kant (1996b, pp. 74–76 [6:26–29]); for my interpretation and elaboration on these ideas, see Varden (2020a, 2020b). …”

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“…1414I believe Varden (2020b) is the first Kant interpretation that pays careful attention to this aspect of Kant's (and Kantian) practical theory.…”

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“…1515For my basic take on these positions, as well as how they relate to debates in metaphysics and metaethics, see Varden (2020b). For the contrast between Janelle DeWitt's more cognitive approach and my own, see our discussion regarding Sex, Love, and Gender in SGIR Proceedings (2021b).…”

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Towards a Kantian theory of philosophical education and wisdom: With the help of Hannah Arendt

Varden

2021

J Philosophy of Edu

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Kant's life shows us that it is possible to be a philosopher who revolutionises our thinking about morality in terms of freedom-in fact, to be the first to propose that treating others morally is to treat them with respect or as having dignity-while simultaneously dehumanising himself and others. It presumably follows from this that we can teach our students Kant's brilliant theories of morality as freedom without, thereby, giving them access to all the philosophical resources they need to become wise, good people. In fact, having access to philosophical education can make us unhappy, arrogant or alienated from ourselves, others and society. Helpful to remedying this problem in Kant's philosophy is to bring it into conversation with Hannah Arendt on the topics of human nature and philosophical education within the context of modern life. Together, their theories also bring to light sources of emotional challenges that make it more difficult to achieve wisdom. Indeed, I suggest, Kant's own failures at achieving wisdom are not accidentally related to these challenges-as are those of much ideal theory today.

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“…44This is, of course, not to say that all sexual or erotic pleasure aims at orgasms. For more on these topics, see Varden (2020b). …”

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Varden

2021

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Rules of disengagement: a Kantian account of the relationship between former friends

Albrecht

2022

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Sages, Sympathy, and Suffering in Kant’s Theory of Friendship

Vilhauer

2021

Can. J. of Philosophy

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Kant’s theory of friendship is crucial in defending his ethics against the longstanding charge of emotional detachment. But his theory of friendship is vulnerable to this charge too: the Kantian sage can appear to reject sympathetic suffering when she cannot help a suffering friend. I argue that Kant is committed to the view that both sages and ordinary people must suffer in sympathy with friends even when they cannot help, because sympathy is necessary to fulfill the imperfect duty to adopt others’ merely permissible ends (MPEs), and we ought to take friends’ MPEs as our own. MPEs are individuated in terms of concepts which include marks of the first person, and no marks of law other than permissibility. To adopt ends of others individuated in terms of such concepts rather than merely promote them as means to different ends, those concepts must engage with one’s feelings in a way that requires sympathy.

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Kantian Care

Cited by 7 publications

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Towards a Kantian theory of philosophical education and wisdom: With the help of Hannah Arendt

Towards a Kantian theory of philosophical education and wisdom: With the help of Hannah Arendt

Rules of disengagement: a Kantian account of the relationship between former friends

Sages, Sympathy, and Suffering in Kant’s Theory of Friendship

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