Thomas Mertens
Biographic Data
| ID | 4408145 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Thomas Mertens |
| GIVEN NAMES | Thomas |
| FAMILY NAME | Mertens |
| SIGNATURE | MERTENS T |
| AFFILIATIONS | Radboud University Nijmegen |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4944-3182 |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 11 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1995 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Bona Fama Defuncti in Kant’s Rechtslehre
Although Kant’s final work in moral philosophy, Die Metaphysik der Sitten , currently attracts much scholarly attention, there is still a lot to explore. This article is an attempt to get to grips with a particular, often neglected passage of the Rechtslehre , namely §35. Here Kant defends the view that not only can a person’s good reputation can be tarnished after his death, but also that this constitutes a violation of this dead person’s proper…
Kant’s Metaphysics of Morals as guidance in a morally and legally complex world
Presentation to the special issue on Kant's Metaphysics of Morals
Emergencies and criminal law in Kant’s legal philosophy
n Contains fulltext :\n 198884.pdf (Publisher’s version ) (Open Access)\n
On Kant’s Duty to Speak the Truth
In ‘On the Supposed Right to Lie from Philanthropy’, Kant defends a position that cannot be salvaged. The essay is nonetheless important because it helps us understand his philosophy of law and, more specifically, his interpretation of the social contract. Kant considers truthfulness a strict legal duty because it is the necessary condition for the juridical state. As attested by Kant’s rejection of Beccaria’s arguments against the death penalty,…
Kant’s Doctrine of Right. A Commentary
The contrast could scarcely be bigger. Kant's theory of law is a very bad book, writes Schopenhauer at the beginning of the 19 th century, a collection of mistakes hanging together
Defending the Rawlsian League of Peoples
In his well-written and well-argued paper ‘International Toleration: Rawlsian versus Cosmopolitan’, Kok-Chor Tan raises the important question as to where the limits of toleration are to be drawn. This is an important issue not only from the perspective of international law, but also for any domestic society. Toleration is never an automatic element or quality of any society, but has to be defended against the ever present danger of intolerance a…
Nazism, Legal Positivism and Radbruch's Thesis on Statutory Injustice
From ‘Perpetual Peace’ to ‘The Law of Peoples’
It is hardly surprising that the two greatest Kantian philosophers of the twentieth century's second half would, at some point of time, reflect and comment on one of the most famous writings of the Königsberg sage, namely on Perpetual Peace: A Philosophical Sketch . Of course, in recent decades, and especially around the celebration of the 200th anniversary of its publication, many commentary articles and books have been published on Kant's littl…
Arendt’s Judgement and Eichmann’s Evil
Redescriptions: Political Thought, Conceptual History and Feminist Theory is an international refereed open access journal, which publishes contributions on the transdisciplinary study of concepts. In classical rhetoric, ‘redescription’ refers to a rhetorical move that alters the use of a concept in one respect or another. The journal draws attention to conceptual moves within political theory, conceptual history and feminist thought, and highlig…
Cosmopolitanism and Citizenship
Hegel's Homage to Kant's Perpetual Peace
At a few places in his Philosophy of Right Hegel directly addresses the discussion with his famous predecessor Immanuel Kant. These places indicate very clearly the distinction between the two philosophical standpoints. This article focuses on Hegel's criticism of Kant's views on peace and international law. For two reasons however, it starts with Hegel's rejection of Kant's moral point of view. First, this criticism is presupposed in Hegel's rej…
Nazism, Legal Positivism and Radbruch's Thesis on Statutory Injustice
Hegel's Homage to Kant's Perpetual Peace
At a few places in his Philosophy of Right Hegel directly addresses the discussion with his famous predecessor Immanuel Kant. These places indicate very clearly the distinction between the two philosophical standpoints. This article focuses on Hegel's criticism of Kant's views on peace and international law. For two reasons however, it starts with Hegel's rejection of Kant's moral point of view. First, this criticism is presupposed in Hegel's rej…
Defending the Rawlsian League of Peoples
In his well-written and well-argued paper ‘International Toleration: Rawlsian versus Cosmopolitan’, Kok-Chor Tan raises the important question as to where the limits of toleration are to be drawn. This is an important issue not only from the perspective of international law, but also for any domestic society. Toleration is never an automatic element or quality of any society, but has to be defended against the ever present danger of intolerance a…
Hegel's Homage to Kant's Perpetual Peace
At a few places in his Philosophy of Right Hegel directly addresses the discussion with his famous predecessor Immanuel Kant. These places indicate very clearly the distinction between the two philosophical standpoints. This article focuses on Hegel's criticism of Kant's views on peace and international law. For two reasons however, it starts with Hegel's rejection of Kant's moral point of view. First, this criticism is presupposed in Hegel's rej…
Cosmopolitanism and Citizenship
Arendt’s Judgement and Eichmann’s Evil
Redescriptions: Political Thought, Conceptual History and Feminist Theory is an international refereed open access journal, which publishes contributions on the transdisciplinary study of concepts. In classical rhetoric, ‘redescription’ refers to a rhetorical move that alters the use of a concept in one respect or another. The journal draws attention to conceptual moves within political theory, conceptual history and feminist thought, and highlig…
From ‘Perpetual Peace’ to ‘The Law of Peoples’
It is hardly surprising that the two greatest Kantian philosophers of the twentieth century's second half would, at some point of time, reflect and comment on one of the most famous writings of the Königsberg sage, namely on Perpetual Peace: A Philosophical Sketch . Of course, in recent decades, and especially around the celebration of the 200th anniversary of its publication, many commentary articles and books have been published on Kant's littl…
Nazism, Legal Positivism and Radbruch's Thesis on Statutory Injustice
Defending the Rawlsian League of Peoples
In his well-written and well-argued paper ‘International Toleration: Rawlsian versus Cosmopolitan’, Kok-Chor Tan raises the important question as to where the limits of toleration are to be drawn. This is an important issue not only from the perspective of international law, but also for any domestic society. Toleration is never an automatic element or quality of any society, but has to be defended against the ever present danger of intolerance a…
Kant’s Doctrine of Right. A Commentary
The contrast could scarcely be bigger. Kant's theory of law is a very bad book, writes Schopenhauer at the beginning of the 19 th century, a collection of mistakes hanging together
On Kant’s Duty to Speak the Truth
In ‘On the Supposed Right to Lie from Philanthropy’, Kant defends a position that cannot be salvaged. The essay is nonetheless important because it helps us understand his philosophy of law and, more specifically, his interpretation of the social contract. Kant considers truthfulness a strict legal duty because it is the necessary condition for the juridical state. As attested by Kant’s rejection of Beccaria’s arguments against the death penalty,…
Kant’s Metaphysics of Morals as guidance in a morally and legally complex world
Presentation to the special issue on Kant's Metaphysics of Morals
Emergencies and criminal law in Kant’s legal philosophy
n Contains fulltext :\n 198884.pdf (Publisher’s version ) (Open Access)\n
Bona Fama Defuncti in Kant’s Rechtslehre
Although Kant’s final work in moral philosophy, Die Metaphysik der Sitten , currently attracts much scholarly attention, there is still a lot to explore. This article is an attempt to get to grips with a particular, often neglected passage of the Rechtslehre , namely §35. Here Kant defends the view that not only can a person’s good reputation can be tarnished after his death, but also that this constitutes a violation of this dead person’s proper…
Political science (11 works) · Epistemology (10 works) · Law (10 works) · Philosophy (10 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Law (5 works) · War, Ethics, and Justification (5 works) · Law and economics (4 works) · Philosophical Ethics and Theory (4 works) · Philosophy (4 works)