Apart from its length, two things are striking about the commentary: first, Qutb's unfailing sensitivity to the Koran's literary qualities; secondly, Qutb's relentless insistence on the unconditional demands made upon those believers.
"The music makes an unconditional demand on the performer," said Anthony Burr, the clarinet soloist this week, "but it engages with the real physicality of the instrument".
He reads Kant as drawn towards a view on which the beautiful object itself makes an unconditional demand on the viewer's attention (of a kind made vivid in the narrator's vow to the hawthorns in Proust's In Search of Lost Time), although he also takes Kant's denial of the objectivity of taste to debar him from endorsing such a view.
This article contributes more evidence on the relative magnitudes of conditional and unconditional demand effects on healthcare demand.
Planning total service provision to match demand would require unconditional demand information, not the conditional demand information that these results provide.
Whether to rely on conditional or unconditional demand estimates depends on the purpose of study in question.
Kant, however, sees the principle of hypothetical imperatives as subordinate to the categorical imperative (cf. Korsgaard 1997), since reason can also be the source of unconditional demands.
As the war neared an end, the pope opposed the unconditional surrender demanded by the Allies, fearing that it would prolong the fighting and bring the Soviet Union and its communist ideology and imperium into eastern and central Europe.
Indeed, Kant's claim can be put more strongly still: reason is the only source of unconditional demands that human beings can ever have access to.
PM to push for action by Beijing David Cameron will this week challenge Beijing over China's influence in Burma and demand the unconditional release of Aung San Suu Kyi, whose house arrest is due to expire in six days.
