Der Weltbürger aus Königsberg: Immanuel Kant heute. Person und Werk
[The cosmopolitan from Königsberg: Immanuel Kant today. Person and work]
Abstract
One of the West’s greatest thinkers was born 300 years ago on 22 April 1724: Immanuel Kant. This circumstance is reason enough to consider what this philosopher – a high point and turning point of the European Enlightenment and one of the most important intellectual personalities of mankind – has to say to us today. There is no doubt that Kant made an outstanding contribution to the intellectual history of the human species, i.e., to the global history of ideas. But this also applies to Thales, Pythagoras and Archimedes, to Hippocrates and Galen, to Galileo, Copernicus, Kepler and Newton as well as many other mathematicians, naturalists, engineers and physicians. While the ideas of the latter group were overtaken by subsequent researchers after some time, this is not the case with Kant. This book argues that Kant’s philosophy was certainly of revolutionary significance for his time; however, it cannot be considered obsolete now. Kant’s impact today goes well beyond having intellectual-historical value.
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