Coming Soon:
The following books by Robert Paul Wolff are available on
Amazon.com as e-books: KANT'S THEORY OF MENTAL ACTIVITY, THE AUTONOMY OF REASON, UNDERSTANDING MARX, UNDERSTANDING RAWLS, THE POVERTY OF LIBERALISM, A LIFE IN THE ACADEMY, MONEYBAGS MUST BE SO LUCKY, AN INTRODUCTION TO THE USE OF FORMAL METHODS IN POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY.
Now Available: Volumes I, II, III, and IV of the Collected Published and Unpublished Papers.
NOW AVAILABLE ON YOUTUBE: LECTURES ON KANT'S CRITIQUE OF PURE REASON. To view the lectures, go to YouTube and search for "Robert Paul Wolff Kant." There they will be.
NOW AVAILABLE ON YOUTUBE: LECTURES ON THE THOUGHT OF KARL MARX. To view the lectures, go to YouTube and search for Robert Paul Wolff Marx."
9 comments:
Congrats, Prof! I'm in my 20s and I would struggle if I just bumped my toe, let alone break it
When you walk, is it in silence, or do you listen to music and/or podcasts?
I walk in silence and think. Or, more precisely, I explain things to imaginary audiences. For example, this morning, after delivering some of my first Kant lecture in my head, I explained, to an imaginary audience, the difference between the way fission nuclear weapons and fusion nuclear weapons work, and why there are both, physically speaking. Don't ask why I did that. It would take too long.
You are a true Kantian in your morning habits.
I'm fairly Kantian myself (Ashkenazi Jews are almost always Kantians), but I'm always looking for a pretext (rain, cold, my cough, my back) to cut a few blocks off my morning routine walk.
If the residents of your town were setting their clocks by you, as the good people of Konigsberg did with Kant, then you would be more punctilious. Of course, it is said that when a copy of Rousseau's EMILE arrived, Kant became so enrossed that he skipped his morning walk. I guess nobody's perfect.
I'm sure that someone has said this better and more precisely, but Kantian ethics insofar as they insist that the rules are the same for everyone are a system of ethics that an oppressed people, as Ashkenazi Jews were in Europe, would tend to adopt and to be in favor of, while consequentialist ethics seem to assume that each ethical agent has a certain power over events, which oppressed people seldom have, and thus, consequentialist ethics seem suited to an enlightened elite such as Bentham or Mill represent. The oppressed person is almost never in the position of deciding to throw the switch in the trolley problem, while the member of the elite makes that type of decision on a daily basis.
very nicely put
Thank you.
Professor Wolff,
I was told that when he missed the walk due to Rousseau, everyone thought he was dead.
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