Kant famously claims that autonomy is the ground of dignity. If he is correct about the grounding relationship, then doubts about our autonomy entail doubts about our dignity. Here, I attempt to show that Kant is sensitive to this problem, and invokes the ‘fact of reason’ (Faktum der Vernunft) as the key piece of evidence for our autonomy, and therefore our dignity. But as is well known, Kant’s...

Die Prädicate der Erscheinung können dem Objecte selbst beigelegt werden, in Verhältniß auf unseren Sinn, z.B. der Rose die rothe Farbe, oder der Geruch; ... [5] Immanuel Kant (1787) Wie wir uns räumliche Gegenstände überhaupt nicht außerhalb des Raumes, zeitliche nicht außerhalb der Zeit denken können, so können wir uns keinen Gegenstand außerhalb der Möglichkeiten seiner Verbindung mit andere...

This paper examines an issue at the centre of feminist debates about pornography and sex work, and that is whether these practices reduce women to sex objects. I question the assumption that the expression of sexual desire is unique in its power to degrade and dehumanize persons. I show that this assumption underlies Catharine MacKinnon’s attack on pornography by considering MacKinnon’s intelle...

Editor’s Message In his Critique of Pure Reason (1929, Palg rave; http://www.arts.cuhk.edu.hk/ Philosophy/Kant/cpr), Immanuel Kant showe d how it can be that all our knowledge begins with experience, yet in order to mak e sense of those experiences we must know other things first. He focused especi ally on the fact that we frame experiences in space and time but cannot deriv e the ideas of spac...

This article, Immanuel Kant who pionering in knowledge philosophy is on. attemped a synthesis between the conflict empiricism and rationalism, which had many adherents period. The German philosopher needs both experience reason for possibility of universal necessary states that has two roots arising from single source. These sensibility understanding. senses form material understanding provides...