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Kant, Husserl, Heidegger and Marx- a brief note

June 23, 2014 by Peter Holding

  ImmanuelKant (1724- 1804) distinguished between “phenomena” and “noumena”. Phenomena are things that we perceive though our senses and understand by applying our reason to them. But Kant believed that objects also have an existence in themselves which we cannot directly experience. This is “noumena” or the “noumenal world”. Edmund Husserl (1859-1938) agreed that human […]

Filed Under: philosophy Tagged With: being, being and consciousness, change, Heidegger and Marx, Husserl, Kant, phenomenology

Utilitarianism and politics

May 2, 2014 by Peter Holding

 Summary: However applicable utilitarianism is to the development or assessment of ethics and public policy, in the end, it probably adds little to successful navigation of the political process. In 2010 Professor Peter Singer delivered an oration to the Institute of Public Administration Australia (IPAA). His topic was ‘Ethics & Public Policy’. Professor Singer advocated a […]

Filed Under: philosophy, politics Tagged With: Climate change, difficulty in predicting consequences, Kant, Peter Singer, pink batts scheme, Rawls, Utilitarianism and the political process