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What Was Kant’s Critical Philosophy Critical Of?
October 26, 2018
Dr. Catherine Wilson (CUNY Graduate Center/Univ of York)
Immanuel Kant is universally regarded as a philosopher of freedom in both pure and applied moral philosophy. His ‘critical philosophy’ is often said to have reconciled human freedom with Newtonian science. It is also believed to articulate a sharp moral distinction between persons — who ought not be used for others’ ends — and things which may be. But Kant was not critical of certain coercive or freedom-limiting social mechanisms. This talk will examine how the critical philosophy was constructed to hold the line against certain egalitarian and progressive ideas of the radical Enlightenment