What Is a Child?(*)

Article Abstract:

Treating someone like a child is wrong, unless the person in question really is a child. The adult-child distinction can fit into an egalitarian ethical theory. There is justification in Kantian ethics for defining some people as children and for treating them differently from adults. Society's conventional norms for applying the concepts of adult and child do not always match people's intuitions about how to treat people.

Psychological aspects, Methods, Children, Ethics, Interpersonal relations

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Justification and Legitimacy(*)

Article Abstract:

Different arguments are needed to show that a state is justified and that it is legitimate. Justifying the state is associated with the treatises of 18th-century philosophers. The Lockean approach to this issue captures features of institutional evaluation that the Kantian approach does not. Standard justifications of the state are offered to those motivated by objections to states.

Criticism and interpretation, Political science, Legitimacy of governments, Government legitimacy, Locke, John

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Kantian rigorism and mitigating circumstances

Article Abstract:

A study argues that the source of the problem of Kant's moral theory and rational intuitionist forms of deontology are both deeper and more intuitive. It is suggested that the conception of the relation between moral rules and actions fits more naturally with a Kantian rather than a rational intuitionist interpretation of the deontological thesis.

Analysis, Kantianism, Moral responsibility, Deontology

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