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 ...

Immanuel Kant, born in Königsberg, Prussia, in 1724, became one of the central philosophers of the Enlightenment and one of ...

The 300th anniversary of Immanuel Kant’s birth, celebrated last month, provides us with an occasion to consider the enduring relevance of the philosopher’s ideas for higher education. Specifically, ...

A man with his hand on his chin as though he was thinking. Artificial intelligence concept. Searching for answers. The philosophical world is busy making plans to mark the 300th birthday next year of ...

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It was claimed Immanuel Kant’s routine was so predictable his neighbours could set their clocks by his daily walk. Born in 1724 in the Prussian town of Königsberg (now Kaliningrad, Russia), Kant had a ...

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 ...

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 ...