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Ideas for B Hale / C Wright, Immanuel Kant and Robert Kirk
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26 ideas
25. Social Practice / A. Freedoms / 3. Free speech
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Enlightenment requires the free use of reason in the public realm [Kant]
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25. Social Practice / A. Freedoms / 4. Free market
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Kant is the father of the notion of exploitation as an evil [Kant, by Berlin]
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25. Social Practice / A. Freedoms / 6. Political freedom
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The existence of reason depends on the freedom of citizens to agree, doubt and veto ideas [Kant]
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25. Social Practice / B. Equalities / 3. Legal equality
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Equality is where you cannot impose a legal obligation you yourself wouldn't endure [Kant]
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Equality is not being bound in ways you cannot bind others [Kant]
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25. Social Practice / B. Equalities / 4. Economic equality
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Citizens can rise to any rank that talent, effort and luck can achieve [Kant]
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25. Social Practice / C. Rights / 1. Basis of Rights
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There is now a growing universal community, and violations of rights are felt everywhere [Kant]
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There are political and inter-national rights, but also universal cosmopolitan rights [Kant]
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25. Social Practice / C. Rights / 3. Alienating rights
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You can't make a contract renouncing your right to make contracts! [Kant]
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In the contract people lose their rights, but immediately regain them, in the new commonwealth [Kant]
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25. Social Practice / C. Rights / 4. Property rights
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If someone has largely made something, then they own it [Kant]
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25. Social Practice / D. Justice / 1. Basis of justice
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Human life is pointless without justice [Kant]
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The highest ideal of social progress is a universal cosmopolitan existence [Kant]
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25. Social Practice / D. Justice / 2. The Law / c. Natural law
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Kant completed Grotius's project of a non-religious basis for natural law [Scruton on Kant]
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25. Social Practice / D. Justice / 3. Punishment / a. Right to punish
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Justice asserts the death penalty for murder, from a priori laws [Kant]
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25. Social Practice / D. Justice / 3. Punishment / b. Retribution for crime
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Retributive punishment is better than being sent to hospital for your crimes [Kant, by Berlin]
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Violation of rights deserves punishment, which is vengeance, rather than restitution [Kant]
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25. Social Practice / E. Policies / 1. War / a. Just wars
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The people (who have to fight) and not the head of state should declare a war [Kant]
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25. Social Practice / E. Policies / 1. War / c. Combatants
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Hiring soldiers is to use them as instruments, ignoring their personal rights [Kant]
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25. Social Practice / E. Policies / 1. War / e. Peace
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Some trust in the enemy is needed during wartime, or peace would be impossible [Kant]
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25. Social Practice / E. Policies / 2. Religion in Society
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The church has a political role, by offering a supreme power over people [Kant]
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25. Social Practice / F. Life Issues / 4. Suicide
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The maxim for suicide is committed to the value of life, and is thus contradictory [Kant]
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A permanent natural order could not universalise a rule permitting suicide [Kant]
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25. Social Practice / F. Life Issues / 6. Animal Rights
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Non-rational beings only have a relative value, as means rather than as ends [Kant]
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Men can only have duties to those who qualify as persons [Kant]
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Cruelty to animals is bad because it dulls our empathy for pain in humans [Kant]
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