Howard Kainz


Howard P. Kainz is professor emeritus at Marquette University, Milwaukee. He was a recipient of a National Endowment for the Humanities fellowship for 1977-1978, and Fulbright fellowships in Germany for 1980-1981 and 1987-1988. Kainz advocates aspects of the philosophy of G.W.F. Hegel.
Kainz is a founding member of the Hegel Society of America.

Books

His major publications include "Active and Passive Potency" in Thomistic Angelology ; Hegel's Phenomenology, Part I: Analysis and Commentary ; Ethica Dialectica: A Study of Ethical Oppositions ; The Philosophy of Man ; Hegel's Phenomenology, Part II: The Evolution of Ethical and Religious Consciousness to the Absolute Standpoint ; Philosophical Perspectives on Peace ; Ethics in Context: Toward the Definition and Differentation of the Morally Good ; Paradox, Dialectic, and System: A Reconstruction of the Hegelian Problematic ; Democracy and the "Kingdom of God" ; Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit: Selections Translated and Annotated by Howard P. Kainz ; An Introduction To Hegel: The Stages Of Modern Philosophy ; GWF Hegel: The Philosophical System ; Politically Incorrect Dialogues ; Natural Law: an Introduction and Reexamination ; and The Philosophy of Human Nature and The Existence of God and the Faith-Instinct. His Paradox, Dialectic, and System received the Choice Distinguished Scholarly Book award for 1988.