Immanuel Kant, German philosopher: “Freedom is the ability to obey the law you have given yourself”

Kant, one of the most influential thinkers in history, revolutionized the concepts of morality and freedom back in the 18th ...
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Kant is by no means rigid!

In this Kant Year 2024, those without much prior knowledge but with an interest in the philosopher and his ideas can get a brief and comprehensible insight in the booklet Immanuel Kant. 100 Seiten, ...
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What philosopher Immanuel Kant’s ‘Toward Perpetual Peace’ has to do with the war in Ukraine

A powerful European country invades a less powerful one. This is a story that German philosopher Immanuel Kant, while writing his essay Toward Perpetual Peace in 1795 in Prussian Königsberg (now a ...

Quote of the day by Immanuel Kant: 'It is not God’s will merely that we should be happy, but...'

Philosopher Immanuel Kant believed happiness is not a gift but a personal creation. He stressed individual responsibility for ...
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Commemorating Immanuel Kant

On the 300th anniversary of his birth, Immanuel Kant will be celebrated in 2024 as a revolutionary thinker and one of the most prominent philosophers of the Enlightenment. But at the same time, his ...
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Kant and the case for peace

Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. In another possible world, more predictable perhaps than the one in which we live, instead of rushing every morning ...
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No you Kant: Russians reject German thinker's name for airport

Paint was hurled at a statue of Kant in Kaliningrad A Russian vice-admiral has denounced the 18th-Century German philosopher Immanuel Kant as a "traitor", calling for him to be rejected in a vote to ...