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Kant, Race and Teleology
When exploring natural history, Kant claims that sometimes causal explanations are insufficient to account for the whole truth and this is why we...
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Kant and Heidegger: The Place of Truth and the Shrinking Back of the Noumena
There is much debate on how to understand Kant’s transcendental idealism in the context of the Critique of Pure Reason . Heidegger’s Kant and the...
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Immanuel Kant (1724–1804)
Es ist unwahrscheinlich, dass Tocqueville Kant gelesen hat. In einem Brief an Gobineau fragt er diesen, ihm Kants Lehre zusammenzufassen, da er...
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Imagination and Transcendental Objects: Kant on the Imaginary Focus of Reason
Going back to Jacobi, commentators have often considered Kant’s notion of the transcendental object (thing in itself, monad, or object = X) to be...
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The Problem of Immediate Evidence According to Kant and Hegel
Kant, Spinoza, and Hegel, mutatis mutandis, reject the possibility of a self-, immediate evidence. Hence, they also reject foundationalism as a model...
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„Vernunft und Offenbarung“ bei Kant – oder: Ob – und wie – der ‚Vernunftglaube‘ durch ein „neues Licht“ noch der „Belehrung bedarf“?
In der späten „Preisschrift“ „über die wirklichen Fortschritte, die die Metaphysik seit Leibnizens und Wolffs Zeiten in Deutschland gemacht hat“, hat...
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Kant Walks Meillassoux: Finitude and Correlationism
This paper analyses Quentin Meillassoux’s criticism of Kantian philosophy. The objective of the paper is to delineate the connection Meillassoux...
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Der öffentliche Gebrauch der Vernunft muß jederzeit frei sein. Philosophieren als Menschenrecht bei Kant
Bereits mit der Formulierung „Menschenrecht bei Kant“ im Titel dieses Beitrags stoße ich in ein Wespennest erhitzter philosophischer Diskussion. An...
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Kant Can’t Get No . . . Contradiction
According to Kant, the universalization of the maxim of false promising leads to a contradiction, namely, to everyone adopting the maxim of false...
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Kant and Feminist Political Thought, Redux: Complicity, Accountability and Refusal
This chapter troubles how contemporary feminist political philosophy should make use of Kant. Huseyinzadegan and Pascoe argue against contemporary...
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Das Ende der Abrüstung. Kant, Bloch und die Rehabilitierung des Bellizismus
Der Aufsatz enthält ideologiekritische Überlegungen zu einem womöglich angstgetriebenen Stimmungsumschwung in Teilen der deutschen Linken angesichts...
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“Heteronomous Morality So Called by Kant” and Kant’s Heteronomous Morality? —On Mou Zongsan’s Confucian Reading of Kant’s Ethics
M ou Zongsan 牟宗三 is well known for his Kantian interpretation of Confucianism, while his understanding of Kant’s ethics is itself colored very much by...
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I Kant Believe You
This chapter examines the paradoxes of enervating energy and Enlightenment shadows. It does so first by bringing Socrates and Immanuel Kant into...
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Immanuel Kant versus Adam Smith
Immanuel Kant is commonly said to be the greatest philosopher ever, having supposedly rescued rationalism from an empiricist assault reaching its...
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The Life of Form: Practical Reason in Kant and Hegel
This chapter investigates the Kantian idea that a rational life is a life of “mere form”—a life in which a “mere form” is the force or spring of...
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Leibniz, Kant, and Referring in the Quantum Domain
The paper addresses the referring problem in quantum mechanics, by spelling out the alternatives with complete or individual concepts (Leibniz; in...
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Kant on Civilization and Cultural Pluralism
Assuming a distinction between civilizationcivilization and moralitymoral culture this chapter explores how Kant approaches the factual plurality of...
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Rethinking the Sublime in Kant and Shakespeare: Gender, Race and Abjection
This chapter discusses Kant’s understanding of aesthetics, by supplementing feminist critiques of the way Kant aligned the sublime with masculinity,...
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The Presence of Kant in Stein
Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason plays an important role for Stein’s understanding of phenomenology. It exemplifies for her an idealist position...
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Bildung zum Kosmopolitismus. Reisen als anthropologische Methode bei Rousseau, Kant und Wilhelm von Humboldt
Der Beitrag thematisiert das Reisen als anthropologische Methode in der zweiten Hälfte des 18. und zu Beginn des 19. Jahrhunderts. Mit Blick auf...