kant

That pretty much describes Kant for me (or may be only Russian translation of him?

This battle continues between the ideas of Immanual Kant and Ayn Rand.

In some of his work, he also directly takes on thinkers like Kant in an attempt to show their work as historically situated rather than universal.

The premise that space is an a priori condition of all human experience of the empirical world flows undisstilled from Kant [ Critique of Pure Reason ].

Chomsky is heavily influenced by this sort of thinking, and for both Kant and Chomsky the product of starting from those premises tends to be an essentialist view of human nature.

Sure, we could say we are defending Bayesian decision making against non-Bayesians and anti-Bayesians, but that would be an anachronistic term to apply to Kant or Adam Smith.

Even though it may require a few reads, it helps to consider his thought in relationship to thinkers like Kant (who heavily influence linguists such as Chomsky, and Chomsky's view of human nature), and perhaps more importantly it indicates the important role that he considers power to have in the formation of knowledge and subjectivity.

(Although where it conflicts with a law, like copyright, it is another question -- does the law have precedence?) (As I have written in other places:) To evaluate something morally, we can follow Kant (in 'Groundwork For The Metaphysic Of Morals'), whose fundamental moral rule is: Act only if the maxim of your action can be willed as a universal law.

Some instead some could follow Kant's idea of treating humans solely as ends, never as means, a sort of human-centered chauvinism or "humanism".

Perhaps instead some could follow Kant's idea of treating humans solely as ends, never as means, a sort of human-centered chauvinism or "humanism".

[0]: "schema" as in a database analogy, not in the way Kant's argument is traditionally translated to English.

Rather than freedom being defined as "doing what one wants", Kant defined freedom as man "rising above his animal instincts" (sp).

Philosophically the battle is over the Primacy of Consciousness (Plato/Kant) and the Primacy of Existence (Aristotle/Rand).

The crux of the argument is in 3.3...he's basically parroting the worst parts of Kant.

Much of Foucault's work is different from projects that you would find in thinkers like Plato or Kant.