Reidar Maliks
Biographic Data
| ID | 2834471 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Reidar Maliks |
| GIVEN NAMES | Reidar |
| FAMILY NAME | Maliks |
| SIGNATURE | MALIKS R |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Oslo |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 18 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 10 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Fichte’s Politics of Cultural Awakening
Although scholars agree that Fichte’s earliest political writings are Kantian, they contain a theory of individual emancipation through a culture of perfection that is foreign to Kant’s Doctrine of Right. I argue that Fichte based his theory on Kant’s moral duty and therefore derived the conclusion that individual morality should be the constitution’s aim. As a result, principles of right are not limited to securing relations of external freedom …
Introduction to the annual Examen Philosophicum lecture
The article ‘Understanding Racism’ by Kwame Anthony Appiah is a revised version of The Annual Examen Philosophicum Lecture held on 29 September 2023 at the University of Oslo, with comments by Anna
Kant and the French Revolution
Like the French revolutionaries, Kant defended individual rights and a republican constitution. That he nonetheless rejected a right of revolution has puzzled scholars. In this article I give an overview of Kant’s rejection of a right of revolution, compare it to the German intellectual context, and use it to explain Kant’s view of the events in France. In Kant’s nuanced account of the revolution’s two central phases, he refined a distinction bet…
Two theories of resistance in the German Enlightenment
Can there be a legal or a moral right to resist the government? Scholarly interest in the right of resistance has rarely focused on German philosophy, which has often been considered unusually committed to authority. Yet, during the Enlightenment German philosophers regularly attempted to justify not just conscientious refusal but also revolution. This essay explores the two dominant justifications, which were based in Wolffian perfectionism and …
Moral and Political Conceptions of Human Rights: Implications for Theory and Practice
Kant’s Politics in Context
This book analyses Kant's political philosophy in the light of public controversies between conservative and radical observers of the French Revolution. The author argues that Kant's theory of equal freedom explains his condemnation of both paternalistic government and radical democracy, and his defense of republican constitutionalism. That Kant idealized the public sphere is well known, but that he intentionally developed his own philosophy in p…
Freedom and the Construction of Europe: Volume 2, Free Persons and Free States
Freedom, today perceived simply as a human right, was a continually contested idea in the early modern period. In Freedom and the Construction of Europe an international group of scholars explore the richness, diversity and complexity of thinking about freedom in the shaping of modernity. Volume 2 considers free persons and free states, examining differing views about freedom of thought and action and their relations to conceptions of citizenship…
Kantian Theory and Human Rights
Kant, the State, and Revolution
This paper argues that, although no resistance or revolution is permitted in the Kantian state, very tyrannical regimes must not be obeyed because they do not qualify as states. The essay shows how a state ceases to be a state, argues that persons have a moral responsibility to judge about it and defends the compatibility of this with Kantian authority. The reconstructed Kantian view has implications for how we conceive authority and obligation. …
Kantian Theory and Human Rights
Prussian polis: Kant's democratic republicanism
This article argues that Kant's republicanism provides a foundation for democratic procedures. The conclusion is reached through an investigation of Critique of the Power of Judgment, which allows us to interpret Kant's notion of the state as a self-determining organic community, and not merely an aggregate of individuals. The article rejects Isaiah Berlin's interpretation of Kant as an authoritarian thinker, and reveals a republican theory cente…
Kant’s Politics in Context
This book analyses Kant's political philosophy in the light of public controversies between conservative and radical observers of the French Revolution. The author argues that Kant's theory of equal freedom explains his condemnation of both paternalistic government and radical democracy, and his defense of republican constitutionalism. That Kant idealized the public sphere is well known, but that he intentionally developed his own philosophy in p…
Prussian polis: Kant's democratic republicanism
This article argues that Kant's republicanism provides a foundation for democratic procedures. The conclusion is reached through an investigation of Critique of the Power of Judgment, which allows us to interpret Kant's notion of the state as a self-determining organic community, and not merely an aggregate of individuals. The article rejects Isaiah Berlin's interpretation of Kant as an authoritarian thinker, and reveals a republican theory cente…
Prussian polis: Kant's democratic republicanism
This article argues that Kant's republicanism provides a foundation for democratic procedures. The conclusion is reached through an investigation of Critique of the Power of Judgment, which allows us to interpret Kant's notion of the state as a self-determining organic community, and not merely an aggregate of individuals. The article rejects Isaiah Berlin's interpretation of Kant as an authoritarian thinker, and reveals a republican theory cente…
Freedom and the Construction of Europe: Volume 2, Free Persons and Free States
Freedom, today perceived simply as a human right, was a continually contested idea in the early modern period. In Freedom and the Construction of Europe an international group of scholars explore the richness, diversity and complexity of thinking about freedom in the shaping of modernity. Volume 2 considers free persons and free states, examining differing views about freedom of thought and action and their relations to conceptions of citizenship…
Kantian Theory and Human Rights
Kant, the State, and Revolution
This paper argues that, although no resistance or revolution is permitted in the Kantian state, very tyrannical regimes must not be obeyed because they do not qualify as states. The essay shows how a state ceases to be a state, argues that persons have a moral responsibility to judge about it and defends the compatibility of this with Kantian authority. The reconstructed Kantian view has implications for how we conceive authority and obligation. …
Kantian Theory and Human Rights
Kant’s Politics in Context
This book analyses Kant's political philosophy in the light of public controversies between conservative and radical observers of the French Revolution. The author argues that Kant's theory of equal freedom explains his condemnation of both paternalistic government and radical democracy, and his defense of republican constitutionalism. That Kant idealized the public sphere is well known, but that he intentionally developed his own philosophy in p…
Moral and Political Conceptions of Human Rights: Implications for Theory and Practice
Two theories of resistance in the German Enlightenment
Can there be a legal or a moral right to resist the government? Scholarly interest in the right of resistance has rarely focused on German philosophy, which has often been considered unusually committed to authority. Yet, during the Enlightenment German philosophers regularly attempted to justify not just conscientious refusal but also revolution. This essay explores the two dominant justifications, which were based in Wolffian perfectionism and …
Kant and the French Revolution
Like the French revolutionaries, Kant defended individual rights and a republican constitution. That he nonetheless rejected a right of revolution has puzzled scholars. In this article I give an overview of Kant’s rejection of a right of revolution, compare it to the German intellectual context, and use it to explain Kant’s view of the events in France. In Kant’s nuanced account of the revolution’s two central phases, he refined a distinction bet…
Introduction to the annual Examen Philosophicum lecture
The article ‘Understanding Racism’ by Kwame Anthony Appiah is a revised version of The Annual Examen Philosophicum Lecture held on 29 September 2023 at the University of Oslo, with comments by Anna
Fichte’s Politics of Cultural Awakening
Although scholars agree that Fichte’s earliest political writings are Kantian, they contain a theory of individual emancipation through a culture of perfection that is foreign to Kant’s Doctrine of Right. I argue that Fichte based his theory on Kant’s moral duty and therefore derived the conclusion that individual morality should be the constitution’s aim. As a result, principles of right are not limited to securing relations of external freedom …
Political science (9 works) · Law (8 works) · Philosophy (8 works) · Epistemology (7 works) · Politics (6 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Philosophical Ethics and Theory (5 works) · Political Philosophy and Ethics (5 works) · Human rights (4 works) · Law and economics (4 works)