Kant goes on to advance free speech, “the freedom to use reason publicly in all matters”, as the prerequisite of progress and ...

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 ...

There’s something about the Enlightenment. Today, few educated men and women spend much time debating whether Western civilization took a disastrously wrong turn in the High Middle Ages. They do not ...

Immanuel Kant's quote encourages people to think independently and trust their own reasoning. Originating from his essay on ...

“Enlightenment is man’s release from his self-incurred tutelage. Tutelage is man’s inability to make use of his understanding without direction from another. Self-incurred is this tutelage when its ...

Anyone who relies on the voice of reason cannot ignore Immanuel Kant. April 22 marks the 300th anniversary of the German philosopher's birth. What does the author of "Perpetual Peace" still have to ...

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 ...

Wherever we look today in academia, scholars are rushing to defend the Enlightenment ideas of political and individual liberty, human rights, faith in scientific reason, secularism, and the freedom of ...