Kant’s Philosophy – Greatness and Limits
Kant is undoubtedly one of the greatest philosophers in European cultural and intellectual history. Anyone who delves deeper into the philosophical thought of his works and is…
Marx’ World View – Conjectures and Aberrations. A Critical Assessment
Karl Marx (1818-1883) was not a philosopher in the Socratic sense of the European tradition of Plato and Aristotle, Augustine and Thomas Aquinas, Kant and Hegel. While…
Hegel’s Philosophy – Insights and Illusions. Bold Attempt of a Critical Assessment at the Occasion of Hegel’s 250th Birthday
Along with Marx, Hegel was the main opponent of some of the most influential traditions of philosophy in 20th century. Most of the philosophers of these traditions,…
Enlightening the enlightenment
Recently, some European politicians and journalists have been making well-intentioned appeals to the "spirit of the Enlightenment" or the "values of the Enlightenment". In the face of…
Scapegoating Kant
In the VoegelinView of April 2020 Arpad Szakolczai proclaimed The End of Kantian Universalism in four parts: "It is too early now to draw the balance of…