The Public Tribunal of Political Practical Reason: Kant and the Culture of Enlightenment

Kant on Free Speech: Criticism, Enlightenment, and the Exercise of Judgement in the Public Sphere

“…For Rousseau, laws are produced by the united will of the people. For Kant, however, this is not the case, but only ‘must be regarded as if they had been agreed by them’ (2005: 67). She goes on, ‘Kant thus replaces the need for actual agreement, which is the defining feature of Rousseau’s participatory political model, with the idea of a possible agreement that functions as a limiting condition for the legislator’ (p. 67).…”

Nancy’s Pleasure in Kant’s Agitation

“…Questioning the intelligibility of experience, Katerina Deligiorgi shows how the debate about reason within critical philosophy is an extension of the reflective examination of the conditions of validity for our use of rationality. 46 In Two Varieties of Skepticism, James Conant asserts two kinds of scepticism: the first he calls "Cartesian scepticism" and the second "Kantian scepticism." The first is centred on the question of knowledge (dreaming vs. actuality); the second focuses on the conditions of the possibility of knowledge.…”

The Kantian Republic

“…Social intercourse is not merely a tool for personal self-development (though it is that) but also something we are obligated to transform for the good of others. 110 See Formosa 2010,Moran 2012 andDeligiorgi 2005. I take it to be the case that here the point is that social intercourse can form dispositions that can then inform our moral judgement and improve the execution of our (imperfect) duties.…”