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- What’s the difference between Kant’s “mathematical” and “dynamical” sublime?
Bromo was probably both, Fajar, but here is the difference. Mathematical sublime: size. Something is so large that your imagination cannot take it in as one whole. You can count ridge after ridge but…
- How is Scanlon’s ‘reasonable rejection’ test different from asking what most people would agree to?
A neighbouring idea from my side of philosophy: Habermas's discourse ethics says a norm is valid only if everyone affected could accept it as a participant in a real discussion. It's often c…
- Can someone explain Nozick’s Wilt Chamberlain argument and the strongest reply to it?
There are several good replies, and none of them is "inequality is bad". 1. The consent was narrower than it looks. G. A. Cohen, in Self-Ownership, Freedom, and Equality (1995), points out t…
- My cooks are free to leave, in theory. What republican liberty sees in a kitchen
Pettit has a test I find very useful: the "eyeball test". People are free in his sense when they can look one another in the eye without reason for fear or deference, when they don't ha…
- Kant says taste is subjective but everyone ought to agree with it. How is that not a contradiction?
Elif's worry has an answer in Kant himself. He distinguishes free beauty, which pleases without any concept of what the thing should be (his examples include flowers and patterned borders), from…