Perhaps more than any other philosopher, Immanuel Kant has suffered the praise of having been labeled an historical optimist. Kant’s writings on international affairs have been misconstrued as a ...

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 an era where the concept of “freedom” is constantly invoked, it’s worth revisiting the theories of the philosopher who shaped the modern understanding of the term: Immanuel Kant. The German thinker ...

In the past, we have covered various scientists and their contributions to their respective professions, but we’ve never touched based on professors of philosophy. Not until now, that is. Immanuel ...

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 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, ...

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 ...

Russian police are hunting for vandals who called one of the greatest thinkers in the history of western thought a "moron." Police in the Kaliningrad region launched the probe after a local journalist ...