Kant, one of the most influential thinkers in history, revolutionized the concepts of morality and freedom back in the 18th ...

On Kant’s 300th birthday, we should not only remember him for his contribution to philosophy, but also commit ourselves to the principles he emphasized. In the Gaza conflict, far too many innocent ...

In Kant's Categorical Imperative he includes this moral maxim of universality: "Act only according to that maxim whereby you can at the same time will that it should become a universal law without ...

In April, 1745, God appeared to a Swedish civil servant named Emanuel Swedenborg in a London tavern. Swedenborg was no wild-eyed prophet but, rather, a fifty-seven-year-old scientist and engineer who ...

When I was 17, I searched my school’s small library for books that might feed my budding curiosity about philosophy. There was only one: Stephan Körner’s introduction to the Prussian giant of the ...

In this Kant Year 2024, those without much prior knowledge but with an interest in the philosopher and his ideas can get a brief and comprehensible insight in the booklet Immanuel Kant. 100 Seiten, ...

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Kant’s final work in moral philosophy, Die Metaphysik der Sitten, currently occupies the centre of scholarly attention. One of the reasons for this is the lack of consensus over how to understand the ...

For Immanuel Kant (1724–1804), a good disposition is the ideal endpoint, and not the necessary starting point, of moral progress. (clu / iStock / Getty Images) But to understand how we can realise ...