To have moral worth, our actions must be motivated by duty, rather than mere sympathy or inclination. As a paradigm of moral ...

In this week’s, Dr. David Gordon takes a hard look at philosopher Omri Boehm’s fixation with John Brown and his commitment to ...

In April, 1745, God appeared to a Swedish civil servant named Emanuel Swedenborg in a London tavern. Swedenborg was no wild-eyed prophet but, rather, a fifty-seven-year-old scientist and engineer who ...

The feeling of beauty, uniquely, bridges the divide between the objective, deterministic world of nature and knowledge and the subjective, free world of judgment and morality. That’s why computers, ...

Anyone who relies on the voice of reason cannot ignore Immanuel Kant. April 22 marks the 300th anniversary of the German philosopher's birth. What does the author of "Perpetual Peace" still have to ...

This course is available on the MSc in Political Theory. This course is available with permission as an outside option to students on other programmes where regulations permit. This course uses ...

Calling German philosopher Immanuel Kant’s ethics “terribly poor,” Chinese philosophy scholar Han Dongping has become the target of criticism for an article with a bold yet somewhat overweening title.

Contemporary academic philosophy is supposed to be about inclusive, open-minded inquiry. But has it outgrown the shadow of its colonialist past? Immanuel Kant (1724-1804) was one of the great moral ...

Should we continue to teach thinkers like Kant, Voltaire and Hume without mention of the harmful prejudices they helped legitimize? By Laurie Shrage Ms. Shrage is a professor of philosophy. We ...