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

Perhaps more than any other philosopher, Immanuel Kant has suffered the praise of having been labeled an historical optimist. Kant’s writings on international affairs have been misconstrued as a ...

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, ...

Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. In another possible world, more predictable perhaps than the one in which we live, instead of rushing every morning ...

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 ...