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Introduction -- The material, i.e. nature -- Capitalism as we know it -- The question of revolution -- What is being proposed here -- The anti-hegelian argument -- Hypostatization : the logical argument -- A wider philosophical framework -- Metaphysics vs. the abstract -- Ruptures and oblivion -- Political economy of capitalism -- Mainstream economic theory -- Marxist theory -- Capitalism, economics, the economy -- Metaphysics vs. the concrete -- Ruptures and dynamism -- The iterative character of capitalism -- Capitalism as a cultural frame -- The philosophical explanation -- Side-effects of iterativeness -- The firm and the market -- Marketing of products -- Capitalism's politeia -- Capitalism's institutions -- The nation-state -- International deals : trade and war -- Imperialism -- Fascism again -- Capitalism vs. individuality -- Materialism is a lonely endeavour -- Capitalism is an anti-culture -- Revolution -- Individuality -- Like cut flowers -- The so-called "transformation problem" -- Intellectual drift -- Withered individuality

In "The Metaphysics of Meaning, Jerrold J. Katz offers a radical reappraisal of the "linguistic turn" in twentieth century philosophy. He shows that the naturalism which emerged to become the dominant philosophical position was never adequately proven. Katz critiques the major arguments for contemporary naturalism and develops a new conception of the naturalistic fallacy. This conception, inspired by Moore, explains why attempts to naturalize disciplines like linguistics and logic, and perhaps ethics, will fail. He offers a Platonist view of such disciplines, justifying it as the best explanation of their autonomy, objectivity, and normativity. Katz examines in detail both Wittgenstein's arguments for a deflationary naturalism on which metaphysics transcends the limits of language, and Quine's arguments for a scientific naturalism on which epistemology is "an enterprise within natural science." He also analyzes related arguments, including Kripke's on rule following, Chomsky's for the psychological reality of language, Dummett's on the nature of theories Of meaning, and Davidson's and Putnam's against intensionalism. Katz shows that, although largely successful against the Fregean psychologized versions of intensionalism, all these arguments fail against an intensionalism that avoids both Fregeanism and psychologism. "The Metaphysics of Meaning concludes with a reassessment of the nature of philosophical problems. It explains their recalcitrance, without, like

In "The Metaphysics of Meaning, Jerrold J. Katz offers a radical reappraisal of the "linguistic turn" in twentieth century philosophy. He shows that the naturalism which emerged to become the dominant philosophical position was never adequately proven. Katz critiques the major arguments for contemporary naturalism and develops a new conception of the naturalistic fallacy. This conception, inspired by Moore, explains why attempts to naturalize disciplines like linguistics and logic, and perhaps ethics, will fail. He offers a Platonist view of such disciplines, justifying it as the best explanation of their autonomy, objectivity, and normativity. Katz examines in detail both Wittgenstein's arguments for a deflationary naturalism on which metaphysics transcends the limits of language, and Quine's arguments for a scientific naturalism on which epistemology is "an enterprise within natural science." He also analyzes related arguments, including Kripke's on rule following, Chomsky's for the psychological reality of language, Dummett's on the nature of theories Of meaning, and Davidson's and Putnam's against intensionalism. Katz shows that, although largely successful against the Fregean psychologized versions of intensionalism, all these arguments fail against an intensionalism that avoids both Fregeanism and psychologism. "The Metaphysics of Meaning concludes with a reassessment of the nature of philosophical problems. It explains their recalcitrance, without, like.

In his eleventh century dialogue De Casu Diaboli, Anselm seeks to avoid the problem of evil for theodicy and explain the fall of Satan as attributable to Satan's own self-creating wrongful will. It is something, as such, for which God as Satan's divine Creator cannot be held causally or morally responsible. The distinctions on which Anselm relies presuppose an interesting metaphysics of nonbeing, and of the nonbeing of evil in particular as a privation of good, worthy of critical philosophical investigation in its own right. Anselm's concept of nonbeing does not resolve the philosophical problem of evil implied by Satan's fall from grace, but is shown perhaps more unexpectedly to enable Anselm's proof for the inconceivable nonexistence of God as the greatest conceivable intended object of thought to avoid Kant's Critique of Pure Reason objection to the general category of 'ontological' arguments.

In this essay, Aaron Beaver argues that the poetry of Gavrila Derzhavin routinely and consistently connects metaphysical beliefs with moral ones, and that, at its most sophisticated, this connection amounts to a full "metaphysics of morality" much like that developed by Derzhavin's contemporary, the philosopher Immanuel Kant. Beaver begins by exploring Derzhavin's belief in the immortality of virtue; he then examines how Derzhavin's famous monument poems assert the poet's immortalitybecausehe verbally pays tribute to those who are virtuous; finally he analyzes Derzhavin's 1797 poem "Bessmertie dushi," in which the poet realizes the connection between the immortality of the soul and morality. The latter part of the article examines Derzhavin's poetic expression of this connection in light of Kant's two postulates of the moral law—the immortality of the soul and the existence of God—and finds that Derzhavin's poetry expresses a similar position with genuine philosophical rigor.

The past three decades have witnessed the emergence, at the forefront of political thought, of several Kantian theories. Both the critical reaction to consequentialism inspired by Rawlsian constructivism and the universalism of more recent theories informed by Habermasian discourse ethics trace their main sources of inspiration back to Kant's writings. Yet much of what is Kantian in contemporary theory is formulated with more or less strict caveats concerning Kant's metaphysics. These range from radical claims that theories of justice must be political, not metaphysical, to more cautious calls

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"Intended for those interested in Kant's contribution to philosophy, this volume provides an overview of Kant's arguments concerning central issues in metaphysics and ethics. Arthur Melnick argues that the key to all of Kant's arguments is his constructivist theory of space and time."--Jacket

THE ARTICLE EXAMINES THE NATURE AND EXTENT OF THE METAPHYSICAL ELEMENT IN NORMATIVE POLITICAL THEORY, THE CENTRAL CONTENTION BEING THAT ALL SUCH THEORY IS A KIND OF METAPHYSICS. IT ARGUES THAT THE NORMALLY ASSUMED DISTINCTION BETWEEN METAPHYSICAL FOUNDATIONS AND THE NON-METAPHYSICAL ELEMENT PERVADES THE WHOLE OF SUCH THEORIES. IT ALSO ARGUES THAT THE DISTINCTION BETWEEN "IDEOLOGICAL" AND "PHILOSOPHICAL" THEORIES IS A LARGELY SPURIOUS ONE AND THAT A UNIFYING NOTION OF POLITICAL METAPHYSICS COULD REPLACE BOTH.