"The differentiation of the political state from civil society was made historically possible, Marx believed, by the i…"

"Kantian ethics is fundamentally committed to a radical critique of human social life, especially of social life in it…"

"Good will is obviously present also in the case where the innocently goodhearted person acts beneficently because she…"

"There are two main reasons that Kant refuses to allow that sympathy or any other empirical sentiment or desire could …"

"The standard model of ethical theory may seem like merely a necessary consequence of applying to normative ethics the…"

"A moral imperative is categorical because its function is not to advise us how to reach some prior end of ours that i…"

"Treating a being as an end in itself means respecting the value of what makes it such an end. After we see that this …"

"Don’t children have the same rights to life and equal concern as adults? Don’t we have moral reasons to concern ourse…"

"Those of us who are sympathetic to Kantian ethics usually are so because we regard it as an ethics of autonomy, based…"

"Thus Kantian autonomy, once it is understood, will (and ought to) disappoint those shallow minds and immature souls w…"