The review surveys the main ideas discussed at international scientific conference “Immanuel Kant and ‘New Enlightenment’” hosted by Immanuel Baltic Federal University (IKBFU) in Kaliningrad on 20-22 April 2022. It was organised IKBFU’s research unit Academia Kantiana with support of Petersburg Dialogue Forum. Speakers analysed theses Report to Club Rome, Come on! Capitalism, Short-termism, Pop...

To J. B. Shank, the engrained notion that Newton’s genius can account for the advent of scientific modernity and the subsequent French Enlightenment is seriously misguided. Though conceding the centrality of Newtonianism to the philosophe movement, Shank seeks to root out the “myth” that Newtonianism served as the “natural springboard” for the Enlightenment. He tethers his narrative to the self...

In this paper, we analyze coordination of macroeconomic stabilization policies within the EMU by focusing, in a dynamic set-up, on asymmetries, externalities, and the existence of a multi-country context. We study how coalitions among fiscal and monetary authorities are formed and what are their effects on the stabilization of output and price. In particular, our attention is directed to study ...

Information technology has inevitably become a facilitator of knowledge sharing. Often, organisational members are separated not only geographically but also culturally. Earlier studies have posited that culture can significantly facilitate or hinder knowledge sharing in culturally diverse teams. Greater enlightenment on the cultural effect is a useful contribution to understanding the most eff...

Suspicion of the authority of tradition is the very signature of the Age of Reason, and particularly, of the Enlightenment. In the last chapter we saw how the suspicion to which tradition was subjected led to a profound misunderstanding of its very nature. If tradition is not merely doctrines or beliefs transmitted from the past, but the very context in which they are interpreted, then the effo...

Enlightenment, the german philosopher immanuel Kant (1724–1804) surmised, is Man’s emergence from self-imposed immaturity. From the ancient greeks and the philosophers of the roman republic, to the thinkers of the European Enlightenment and the great scientists of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, philosophers and scientists have used science and reason to fight the superstitious belief t...