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Essays on Kant's Ethics and Political Philosophy (by Helga Varden)

Helga Varden

A book of professor Helga Varden's essays was released in Persian by Naghd-e Farhang Publications. The book was translated by Ali Pirhayati. Persian Title: واردن، هلگا (۱۴۰۱). جستارهایی در اخلاق و فلسفه سیاسی کانت. ترجمه علی پیرحیاتی. نشر نقد فرهنگ

This collection contains several articles on Kant's practical philosophy that were published between 2006 and 2021. Varden challenges the position of many contemporary Kantian scholars, including Arendt, Rawls, and O'Neill, and offers alternative interpretations of Kant's texts. The main themes of these articles are: poverty as systematic injustice; the need and nature of just legal and political institutions; The rights of individuals against each other against the rights of citizens against their public institutions; Dependency and care relationships (asymmetrical relationships); human nature; Our rights and duties related to living nature; and the relationship between justice, virtue, and our embodied social nature in general as well as in particular historical societies. 

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