Showing papers in "Review of Metaphysics in 1988"

Kant's Theory of Property

Abstract: that, while the present work would be concerned only with the supreme principle of morality, he intended some day to write a "metaphysics of morals" in which he would set forth the whole system of man's duties derived from this principle (Ak 4, 391-92).1 Twelve years later, in 1797, he published The Metaphysics of Morals in two parts: Metaphysical First Principles of the Doctrine of Right2 and Metaphysical First Principles of the Doctrine of Virtue. As the Groundwork made clear, the concept of duty contains that of con straint upon an agent who, because of impulses belonging to his sensible nature, does not necessarily do whatever is objectively

Metaphysics, critique, and utopia

Abstract: J. WANT TO SPEAK about three concepts that are not normally as sociated with each other, but which?as I hope to show?are inti mately related and interwoven: metaphysics, critique, and utopia. I will be focusing on only selected aspects of these polys?mie con cepts, but I want to risk reclaiming an essential impulse, an animus that runs through them. Let me begin with "utopia." Leszek Ko lakowski notes: