Kant or won’t: theory and moral responsibility (The BISA Lecture, December 1995)
Philip Allott
Theory and moralityAll history is the of human consciousness.To say such a thing not merely to take certain view metaphysics or epistemology historiography - aligning oneself, perhaps, with R. G. Collingwood.R. Collingwood, The Idea History (Oxford, 1946), p. 305. In An Autobiography (London, 1939), Collingwood said: 'My life's work ... has been in main an attempt bring about rapprochement between philosophy history' (p. 77). May greater success attend our efforts reconcile international studies! To itself significant event within consciousness, whose ironical power centred word 'is'. And that really all I want talk this evening. 'is' awful moral responsibility which rests on shoulders those us who are masters Is. Let call ourselves isarchs, ruling-class Istopia. Wizards
Review of International Studies