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Art, Nature, Beauty and Genius: A Post Hoc Rereading of Kant
In the history of art and aesthetics, beauty in nature and beauty in art can be seen meeting in the works of Immanuel Kant. Thinkers such as Kirwan...
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Kant, Korsgaard und die Tiere
Christine M. Korsgaard is one of the most influential voices in contemporary philosophy. In her works on Kant’s moral philosophy, she defends it...
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Kant
Immanuel Kant (1724–1804) gilt weithin als einer der bedeutendsten Philosoph*innen der Neuzeit. Seine Überlegungen zu den subjektiven Bedingungen...
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Aspects of Practical Bindingness in Kant: Introduction
One of the few points of consensus in the Kantian literature is that Kant’s Moral Law is binding universally and unconditionally. Hence, the Moral...
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Stalin with Kant or Hegel?
Alexandre Kojève declared himself a Stalinist. This declaration has puzzled his own students from the inter-war period and many later commentators....
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Reading Kant
This chapter focuses on Jacques Derrida’s forty-year engagement with Kant. Giving Kant a significant place in the early formulation of deconstruction...
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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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Kant and Anscombe: Two Contrasting Views on Aristotle’s ‘Virtue’
The paper attempts to discuss two contrasting views on Aristotle’s notion of ‘virtue’ advocated by Immanuel Kant and G. E. M. Anscombe. Kant...
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Kant, intoxicated: the aesthetics of drunkenness, between moral duty and “active play”
This article examines Kant’s overlooked concept of “active play,” as opposed to “free play,” in connection with the influence of the Brunonian system...
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Perpetual Peace or War? A Critical Reflection on Kant and the Mahābhārata’s Political Thoughts
Immanuel Kant, in his political project, “Perpetual Peace” has attempted to show a moral hope for the scourge of humanity, i.e. war . For Kant, man’s...
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Kant, Richter and the a priori representations of Anfangsgründe der Stöchiometrie
The chemist Jeremias Benjamin Richter (1762–1807) coined the term “stoichiometry” and proposed the “law of definite proportions.” He is also commonly...
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Religionsphilosophie nach Kant Im Angesicht des Bösen
Kants Verhältnis zur Religionsphilosophie ist von faszinierender Komplexität: Erkenntnistheoretisch ist Gott eine Leerstelle, praktisch hingegen...
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Kant and Biological Theory
Over the past few decades, philosophers of biology have debated the need for a revised evolutionary synthesis that could integrate the causal...
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Critical notice of Christopher J. Insole: Kant and the Divine: from contemplation to the Moral Law (Oxford University Press, 2020)
In this Critical Review I mainly discuss two predominant features of Christopher J. Insole’s Kant and the Divine . The first concerns his argument...
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Kant Versus Frege on Arithmetic
Kant's claim that arithmetical truths are synthetic is famously contradicted by Frege, who considers them to be analytical. It may seem that this is...
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Sameness beyond numerical identity. A defence of the One Object View of Kant´s transcendental idealism
Some Kant scholars argue that appearances and things in themselves are distinct things (Two Objects View). Others argue that they are the same things...
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Rorty’s Approach to Kant and Hegel
The article discusses Rorty’s approach to Kant and Hegel. Rorty sees Kant as a foundationalist and representationalist. Hegel, by contrast, is viewed...
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Kant on the Normativity of Obligatory Ends
I propose a novel way to understand the stringency of Kant’s conception of beneficence. This novel understanding can ground our intuition that we do...
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Immanuel Kant
Arendts Lektüre von Kant beginnt früh mit der Kritik der reinen Vernunft. Ihr gesamtes philosophisches wie politisches Interesse an dem Philosophen,...
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Schiller and Kant on Grace and Beauty
Schiller’s essay “On Grace and Dignity” has been taken by many, including Kant himself, to be an attack on Kant’s moral philosophy, understood as...