Howard Kainz

Howard P. Kainz (born 1933) 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.^[1]

Kainz is a founding member of the Hegel Society of America.

• "Active and Passive Potency" in Thomistic Angelology (1972);
• Hegel's Phenomenology, Part I: Analysis and Commentary (1976);
• Ethica Dialectica: A Study of Ethical Oppositions (1979);
• The Philosophy of Man (1981);
• Hegel's Phenomenology, Part II: The Evolution of Ethical and Religious Consciousness to the Absolute Standpoint (1983);
• Philosophical Perspectives on Peace (1987);
• Ethics in Context: Toward the Definition and Differentation of the Morally Good (1988);
• Paradox, Dialectic, and System: A Reconstruction of the Hegelian Problematic (1988);
• Democracy and the "Kingdom of God" (1993);
• Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit: Selections Translated and Annotated by Howard P. Kainz (1994);
• An Introduction To Hegel: The Stages Of Modern Philosophy (1996);
• GWF Hegel: The Philosophical System (1996);
• Politically Incorrect Dialogues (1999);
• Natural Law: an Introduction and Reexamination (2004);
• The Philosophy of Human Nature (2008)
• The Existence of God and the Faith-Instinct (2010).
• Paradox, Dialectic, and System (Choice Distinguished Scholarly Book award)