http://groups.yahoo.com/group/habermas/ as text, influence, adversary, exemplar Tue, 29 Sep 2009 17:19:00 GMT Omar http://groups.yahoo.com/group/habermas/message/2060 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/habermas/message/2060 Re: a note on pragmatic anthropology What is interesting in Kant's treatment of the highest good is that it is a function of his reflective judgment, and thus Tue, 29 Sep 2009 16:05:59 GMT Gary E. Davis http://groups.yahoo.com/group/habermas/message/2059 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/habermas/message/2059 Thanks, Omar, for your lucid synoptic. You seem to express the heart of Kant. I don't know much about Kant as such, due to influence earlier in my life by Mon, 28 Sep 2009 22:17:42 GMT Omar http://groups.yahoo.com/group/habermas/message/2058 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/habermas/message/2058 But Kant is clear about this throughout his Critiques. In the first Critique he defines philosophy, in the Architectonic section, as a teleology of human Mon, 28 Sep 2009 15:24:44 GMT Manuel Rivera http://groups.yahoo.com/group/habermas/message/2057 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/habermas/message/2057 Yes, interesting. but isn't that, essentially, Hannah Arendt's line of arguing from the seventies? We have a rather famous edition here in Germany of her Fri, 11 Sep 2009 19:38:01 GMT Gary E. Davis http://groups.yahoo.com/group/habermas/message/2056 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/habermas/message/2056 I have my own reasons for interest ephemeral interest in Kant's anthropology, unaware of what Thomas McCarthy has been up to. Now I see, just released and Mon, 07 Sep 2009 02:05:42 GMT Gary E. Davis http://groups.yahoo.com/group/habermas/message/2055 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/habermas/message/2055 Holly L. Wilson notes in _Kant's Pragmatic Anthropology_ (SUNY, 2006) that Kant never taught his _Critique of Pure Reason_, but taught his anthropology every Sun, 06 Sep 2009 00:03:36 GMT Gary E. Davis http://groups.yahoo.com/group/habermas/message/2054 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/habermas/message/2054 I have to say that Thomas Gregersen is doing a great service by all the posting he does via his blog: http://habermas-rawls.blogspot.com/ I'm glad that he's Fri, 28 Aug 2009 16:29:55 GMT Gary E. Davis http://groups.yahoo.com/group/habermas/message/2053 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/habermas/message/2053 I should add that I'm looking for entrances into philosophical importances in institutional policies, not more runaround about the politicization of religion Fri, 28 Aug 2009 14:47:09 GMT Gary E. Davis http://groups.yahoo.com/group/habermas/message/2052 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/habermas/message/2052 Especially since professor Habermas is in the U.S. to host a seminar on political theology, I think it's appropriate to highlight articles that indicate the Fri, 28 Aug 2009 12:22:02 GMT Kenneth MacKendrick http://groups.yahoo.com/group/habermas/message/2051 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/habermas/message/2051 http://aawsat.com/english/news.asp?section=2&id=17917 Excerpt: At this point, the Tehran thriller writer's account is de-routed by an avalanche of names and Wed, 26 Aug 2009 13:42:03 GMT Gary E. Davis http://groups.yahoo.com/group/habermas/message/2050 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/habermas/message/2050 Washington, DC—The American Political Science Association (APSA) is pleased to announce its 2009 awards for excellence in the study, teaching, and practice Wed, 26 Aug 2009 12:33:18 GMT Kenneth MacKendrick http://groups.yahoo.com/group/habermas/message/2049 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/habermas/message/2049 http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=104467&sectionid=351020101 I don't recall ever coming across Habermas's "Theory of Civil Disobedience." I'm also not sure Tue, 25 Aug 2009 19:55:39 GMT rhetter2 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/habermas/message/2048 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/habermas/message/2048 Well done. Rettig Gary: I should have indicated explicitly that I was forwarding a response from a non-subscriber, Vic Peterson. Non-subscribers may post by Tue, 25 Aug 2009 18:49:38 GMT Gary E. Davis http://groups.yahoo.com/group/habermas/message/2047 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/habermas/message/2047 Phil, Check out the free first chapter to Uwe Steinhof, The Philosophy of JH: A Critical Introduction: http://fds.oup.com/www.oup.com/pdf/13/9780199547807.pdf Mon, 24 Aug 2009 02:25:09 GMT iamspartacus541 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/habermas/message/2046 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/habermas/message/2046 Dear Listers, As is known, Habermas takes critical theory away from the problematic of instrumental reason and towards functionalist reason and systems