![]() ![]() ![]() How can we understand Kant’s moral philosophy and it continued salience today? Twenty-first century debates about human rights, cosmopolitanism, and liberalism still turn to Kant, some 220 years later. It’s a conception of freedom and autonomy that has had a lasting impact on moral and political philosophy, not only in terms of his immediate reception by the German Idealists such as Hegel, but also within 20 th century moral and political thought-from the Frankfurt School to Hannah Arendt to John Rawls and beyond. How must we re-conceive of our moral obligations to each other in the light of declining religious authority and belief? Can we understand morality on the basis of the nature of human reason alone? For Kant, there is an essential, necessary relationship between reason and freedom, morality and autonomy. At the epicenter of Immanuel Kant’s broad philosophical project regarding nature, the self, aesthetics, and history is an ultimate concern with morality and the good. ![]()
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