In his Third Analogy of Experience, Kant argues that a universal system of mutual causal interaction-at-a-distance is presupposed in the very construction of experience, and thereby also can be assumed to hold of objects of experience qua appearances. This implies in turn a notion of objective simultaneity. I discuss whether Kant’s project is rendered wholly obsolete by the relativity and conve...

Regardless of one’s particular philosophical interests and convictions, it is evident that the notion of autonomy is an important one. However, agreement about the nature of autonomy and about what it requires has proven elusive in contemporary discussions. In Kant and the Fate of Autonomy Karl Ameriks addresses this impasse by going back to the historical roots of this notion in Kant and argui...

In his 1795 essay ‘Toward Perpetual Peace’ the East-Prussian university metaphysician Immanuel Kant (1724-1804) named ‘Hugo Grotius, Pufendorf, Vattel’ as the ‘miserable comforters’ of the law of nations. This was a bon mot that became celebrated retrospectively, with the late-twentieth-century reception of Kant’s cosmopolitanism in political philosophy and international relations theory. In fo...

art of Kant’s reason for writing the first Critique is to show the limits of theoretical reason; one of these limits is its inability to experience transcendence, to cognize supersensible objects, to intuit the sublime. But Kant doesn’t thereby want to make these experiences impossible—indeed, part of his reason for writing the second and third Critiques, along with such works as Religion withi...

abstract. in the 18th century, the term ‘wit’ was held to be almost equal to the term ‘spirit’, and its notion, being applied both in music and in literature, was one of the most fundamental themes in poetry in the age of enlightenment. the meaning of the word changed during the time, however, its importance lasted until the romantic era. at that period, the term ‘wit’ was defined as ‘intellige...