The philosopher Immanuel Kant puts the case most clearly. To act morally is to act freely, which is to act independently of incentive.

Just recently, Shoshana Liessmann and Antje Herzog wrote about Immanuel Kant in honor of his 300 th birthday and explained how the celebrated “revolutionary thinker and one of the most prominent ...

Essay Why the World Still Needs Immanuel Kant Unlike in Europe, few in the United States will be celebrating the philosopher’s 300th birthday.

From Peter Cave, London W1, UKGideon Rachman rightly notes how Israel is not alone in pursuing actions, when knowing full well that thousands of innocent people of all ages will be killed or ...

Immanuel Kant ’s famous dictum located moral reasoning in an objective reality, as universally perceptible and discoverable, in principle at least, as the stars in the sky.

Philippe Collin’s 1996 film follows the famously abstemious and abstruse philosopher as he’s anticipating his death, yet it’s a physical comedy filled with neo-slapstick intimacy.

In Kant’s time, the public sphere mainly consisted of the Republic of Letters, a network made of intellectuals and writers in the late 17th and 18th centuries engaging in open debate.

When the German philosopher Immanuel Kant puzzled over why nature looks beautiful to us, he considered the case of replicas. Imagine, Kant wrote in the late 1700s, a jovial innkeeper who, for lack ...

T he philosophical world is busy making plans to mark the 300 th birthday next year of the German philosopher Immanuel Kant. Non-philosophers might be forgiven for wondering why they should care ...

“The Rigor of Angels,” by William Egginton, considers how three very different men — Jorge Luis Borges, Immanuel Kant and Werner Heisenberg — rejected conventional assumptions about ...

Wilson's "ideas men" belong very much to the male canon, whereas Woolf gave women intellectual ammunition in a way that, perhaps, Hume or Kant did not.