In 1912, Ernst Cassirer contributed to the special issue of the Kant-Studien that honored Hermann Cohen's retirement—his mentor and teacher, and the recognized founding father of the so-called 'Marburg school' of Neo-Kantianism. In the context of an otherwise rather conventional presentation of Cohen's interpretation of Kant, Cassirer made a remark that is initially surprising. It is “anything but accurate,” he wrote, to regard Cohen's philosophy as focused “exclusively on the mathematical theory of nature,” as is usually done. A reconstruction of (...) the genesis of Cohen's thought, Cassirer continued, would already refute this interpretation. Actually, “[t]he... (shrink)

Although Hermann Cohens realistic philosophy, it was nonetheless instrumental in the forming of Blochs thought through the ontologizing reading made of it by Oswald Weidenbach. Bloch owes to Cohen the themes of the origin as question and problem, the future as primary dimension of time, and the Idea as hypothesis and practical aim of knowledge.

Contrariamente à visão tradicional de Kant como um puro retributivista, as interpretações recentes da teoria kantiana da pena propõem uma teoria mista da retribuição e prevenção geral. Embora ambos elementos sejam literalmente corretos, tentarei mostrar os limites de cada um deles. Sustentarei que a teoria kantiana da pena não é consistente com seu próprio conceito de lei. Proponho, então, uma outra justificação para a pena: especial e reabilitação. A crítica kantiana do utilitarismo não afeta essa alternativa, que tem, outrossim, apoio (...) em Kant e é totalmente consistente com sua própria concepção de lei. (shrink)

The project behind this and the following1 special issue of Angelaki first assumed concrete form in the shape of a three-day international conference, “Continental Philosophy and the Sciences,” hel...