An intro to Kant’s philosophy, (and why should we learn about Kant anyway?)
#Kant #philosophy #englightenment

Please skip to 13:44 for the second part (Why we Need a New Enlightenment) if you think you already have a good understanding of Kant's philosophy. But it is still recommended to watch the whole video to ensure that we are on the same page.

0:00 Kant's Philosophy
13:44 Why We Need a New Enlightenment

Another video about Kant:
BAD Philosophy Videos! (Philosophy Tube on Kant's Philosophy):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ocxRrIa5A0o

Kant’s Ethics: Homophobia, Child Killing--and Derek Chauvin:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IrB5XN_Qw_0

Sources:
“Critique is not opposed to the dogmatic procedure of reason (…)” (Kant, Critique of Pure Reason, Bxxxv)

the (critical) “subjective investigation of reason itself” precedes “any objective and dogmatic investigation of things” (Kant, Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics 42)

a “preceding critique of reason’s own ability” (Kant, Critique of Pure Reason Bxxxv)

“We can also grant the theology faculty’s proud claim that the philosophy faculty is its handmaid (though the question remains, whether the servant is the mistress’s torchbearer or trainbearer), provided it is not driven away or silenced.” (Kant, Conflict of Faculties, http://la.utexas.edu/users/hcleaver/330T/350kPEEKantConflictFacNarrow.pdf)

“A critique is not a matter of saying that things are not right as they are. It is a matter of pointing out on what kinds of assumptions, what kinds of familiar, unchallenged, unconsidered modes of thought, the practices that we accept rest (…) Criticism is (…) to show that things are not as self-evident as we believed, to see that what is accepted as self-evident will no longer be accepted as such. Practicing criticism is a matter of making facile gestures difficult.” (M. Foucault, “Practicing criticism, or, is it really important to think?”, interview by Didier Eribon, May 30-31, 1981, in Politics, Philosophy, Culture, ed. L. Kriztman (1988), p. 154)

“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness” (Declaration of Independence, U.S.A.)

Walter Benn Michaels, The Trouble with Diversity”: https://prospect.org/features/trouble-diversity/
Walter Benn Michaels, Adolph Reed Jr., “The Trouble with Disparity”: https://nonsite.org/the-trouble-with-disparity/
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Dr Hans-Georg Moeller is a professor in the Philosophy and Religious Studies Program at the University of Macau.