If you want to understand the world, you don't necessarily have to travel it. Take one look at Immanuel Kant (1724-1804). On April 22, the world celebrates the 300th anniversary of his birth.

This course is capped at 2 groups. Some familiarity with either the history of political thought or with philosophy is an advantage but is not strictly necessary. The course does not assume any prior ...

he earned his PhD in philosophy at the LMU Munich, where he also received the German Habilitation. He is a member of the Reviewers Panel of the journals Gregorianum and Kant-Studien. Among his main ...

IN this work Prof. Hastie has not only given us a very readable book, but has written an important chapter in the history of astronomy. His main object is to make us recognise in Kant a profound ...

Emblematic of this mindset is the motto of his General Natural History and Theory of the Heavens from 1755: “Give me matter and I will build a world out of it.” According to Kant’s theory, solar ...

2005; Grant, 2002; Kline, 2006). Kantian theory instructs people to act in harmony with universally accepted rules. Telling the truth is at the heart of this deontological theory (Kant ...

So, for example, the philosopher Kant thought that it would be wrong to tell a lie in order to save a friend from a murderer. If we compare Deontologists with Consequentialists we can see that ...

Wouldn’t lying then be a moral duty in order to mitigate such negative consequences?  These questions are at the heart of the debate between moral absolutists and moral relativists.   To Lie or Not to ...

This course is capped at 2 groups. Some familiarity with either the history of political thought or with philosophy may be an advantage but is not strictly necessary. The course does not assume any ...