Kant’s Enlightenment
*Note: This was originally a paper presented at the 2023 APSA Immanuel Kant is associated with the Enlightenment.[1] Moreover, he self-identified with the Enlightenment and answered…
*Note: This was originally a paper presented at the 2023 APSA Immanuel Kant is associated with the Enlightenment.[1] Moreover, he self-identified with the Enlightenment and answered…
For this semester I’ll offer my reflections on an introductory, freshmen-level course on western core texts that I am teaching. What should students make of Kant’s…
Idolizing the Idea: A Critical History of Modern Philosophy. Wayne Cristaudo. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2020. In Idolizing the Idea, Cristaudo explores the value that philosophy…
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…
Introduction At the crescendo of the Enlightenment, Immanuel Kant famously admitted his intellectual debt to Jean-Jacques Rousseau. Kant praised Rousseau as a man possessing “an uncommon acuity…
Having considered politics from above from the Socratic perspective, and from within from the perspective of my students own regime, Canada, we now move slightly outward, to…
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…
In the previous articles I repeatedly asserted that we ‘basically’ live inside a police state, as the police is the most basic institution of the modern state,…
1. Corruption Economic theory, economics and the economy are not only based on generalized, even infinite, limitless exchange, but also on corruption, in the etymological sense of…
One of the side effects of the current pandemic is the incredibly clean air we all are having everywhere. I almost wrote ‘absurdly’ clean air, though of…
It is too early now to draw the balance of the current pandemic madness, but certainly not too early to reflect on what is going on, and…
Immanuel Kant (1724-1804), the putative “Sage of Königsberg,” in a rare moment of lyricism states “Two things fill the mind with ever new and ever increasing admiration…
The Best of Cordwainer Smith. Cordawiner Smith. New York: Ballentine Books, 1975) The scanners in Cordwainer Smith’s story “Scanners Live in Vain” are heroes who have…
The “Conjectural Beginning of Human History”[1] is Kant’s attempt to recast the creation story of Genesis. The procreative act of Yahweh is cooperative in the sense heaven and…
Immanuel Kant provides a philosophical justification for cosmopolitanism in education and for internationalism in foreign policy. Like today’s internationalists, Kant asks teachers to promote universal perspectives in…