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 ...

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 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 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, ...

Quote of the Day: Today's quote by German philosopher Immanuel Kant says 'We are not rich by what we possess but by what we can do without'. The quote means true wealth doesn't lie in materialistic ...

Kant holds that all human persons possess dignity, or intrinsic value, under all circumstances. While the notion of human dignity precedes Kant, I think that he does more than anyone else to emphasize ...

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 ...