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This article analyses Kant’s work “Answering the Question: What is Enlightenment?” It is shown that Kant’s enlightenment is a political project. The author focuses on the philosophical prerequisites and the essence of this project and analyses the difference between the “public” and “private” use of reason....

This article focuses on the question of what “progress in knowledge” (Fortschritt im Wissen) since the Enlightenment could mean. The answer is rooted in a shift in perspective in our understanding of the Enlightenment, and in an awareness of the gnoseotope at the center of this perspectival shift. Given the fact that human knowledge has always been considered ...

... thematically universal, embracing all the areas of Kant’s legacy. This time the conference focused on practical philosophy, i.e. the historical grounds and modern significance of Kant’s ethical thought as compared to other philosophical projects of the Enlightenment era. Due attention was paid to the reception of the ethics of Kant and the Enlightenment by philosophers in Russia and the West. Breakout groups discussed aspects of interconnection between the Enlightenment ethics and esthetics as well ...

The article focuses on the book "Utopias of the Age of Enlightenment" by A. V. Chudinov. Analyzing this work, the author reflects on the contradictions and paradoxes of the Enlightenment: the utopian ideals of the Enlightenment, aimed at achieving universal happiness and prosperity, in practice were ...

... Darmstadt: Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, pp. XII-LXIX. Hoffmann, P. T., 1927. Eine Altonaer Dichterin von Wein, Weib und Gesang: Johanne Charlotte Unzerin. Altonaer Stadtkalender, 15, pp. 31-35. Kant, I., 1991. An Answer to the Question: ‘What is Enlightenment?’ In: I. Kant, 1991. Political Writings. Edited by H. S. Reiss, translated by H. B. Nisbet. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 54-60. Kharitonova, А. М., 2016. Medical Anthropology in the 18th Century and Development of Anthropology ...

... landing ground is unprecedented. Kant preformed this intellectual feat through understanding the true essence of human nature. All the novelties and discoveries that he introduced into philosophy are the results of this initial achievement. Whereas the Enlightenment formulated the principle of naturalism as a basic one for the comprehensive understanding of the world, Kant juxtaposed it with the principles of transcendental anthropology. As a result, it requires a new understanding of 1) the nature ...

... Press. Kuehn, M., 1987. Scottish Common Sense in Germany, 1768-1800. Kingston and Montreal: McGill-Queen’s University Press. Maliks, R., 2014. Kant’s Politics in Context. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Oz-Salzberger F., 1995. Translating the Enlightenment: Scottish Civic Discourse in Eighteenth-Century Germany. Oxford: Clarendon Press. Solovyov, E. Y., 2005. Kategoricheskiy imperativ nravstvennosti i prava [Kategorical Imperative of Morality and Law]. Moscow: Progress-Traditsiya. (In Rus....

... the two is probably also the primary reason why important factual differences and controversial aspects have so far usually been neglected or ignored in research, although they still continue to raise problems and controversies in the context of the Enlightenment and the philosophy of religion. Although Lessing and Kant are both committed to the ideas of the Enlightenment and also appear as “related in essence”, above all with regard to religio-philosophical questions, Kant’s “moral determined ...

This article revisits the ratio-centric system developed by the prominent exponent of the German enlightenment J. Chr. Gottsched (1700—1766). The authors examine the problem of the ontological argument in the context of the current civilizational crisis of consciousness, which arose against the background of the 20th century crisis of objectivist ...

This article considers the realisation of the Enlightenment landscape utopia on the example of the analysis of the evolution of utopian ideas by Andrei Bolotov in his autobiographical work “Life and Adventures”. The author of the article outlines the destruction of ‘natural state’ of a human ...

This article examines the relation between J. Rawls’s philosophical and political conceptions and I. Kant’s ideas and the intellectual and political tradition of the Enlightenment in general. The author defends Rawls’s approach to Kant’s works interpreting it as “discipleship”, the assimilation and intrinsic reconceptualization of Kantian ideas preserving the essence of the assimilated. Rawls justifies his ...

... 1965—1979. 9. Schadel E. Kants “Tantalischer Schmertz“: Versuch einer konstruktiven Kritizismus-Kritik in ontotriadischer Perspektive. Frankfurt am Main ; Berlin ; Bern ; New York ; Paris ; Wien : Lang, 1998. G. Hamann, I. Kant, philosophy of Enlightenment, Critique of Pure Reason, hermeneutics, transcendental philosophy, Hamann’s polemic against Kant Gilmanov V. Kh. 93-101 10.5922/0207-6918-2013-2-8 [html]<div align="justify">1. Gilmanov, V. H. 2003, Germenevtika «obraza» ...

The author analyses the Enlightenment's principle of justifying lie from altruistic motives, which was criticised by Kant in the article "On a supposed right..." The article considers the advantages and disadvantages of arguments drawn in Kant's work. The author proves ...

This article considers the enlightenment strategy of Yekaterina the Second aimed at introducing the nobility to basic values, in particular, family consolidation and devotion to the interests of the state. A literature means of implementing this strategy was the comedies of Yekaterina ...

... Kant’s positive attitude to the French revolution as a ‘historical sign’ of the possibility of moral and legal improvement of humanity through striving for moral goals. Political revolutions are considered as the initial (‘negative’) stage of enlightenment consisting in the liberation from coercion and ‘assistance’ from guardians. This s 1. Aldanov, M. A. 2002, Devyatoe termidora [The Ninth Thermidor]. In: Aldanov, M. A. Myslitel’. Tetralogiya [The Thinker, a tetralogy]. Moscow. ...

... Theory of Mental Activity: a Commentary on the Transcendental Analytic of the Critique of Pure Reason. Cambridge (MA): Harvard University Press. Kant, philosophy of mathematics, intuition, construction, philosophy of science, philosophy of German Enlightenment Evstigneev M. D. 151-178 10.5922/0207-6918-2021-2-6

... Publishing]. Yang, Z. and Deng, X., 2001. 康德《纯粹理性批判》指要 Kangde “Chuncui lixing pipan” zhiyao [Introduction to Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason]. Beijing: 人民出版社 Renmin chubanshe [People’s Publishing House]. Kant, China, Enlightenment, New Confucianism, Translation, Li Zehou, Yan Fu, Mou Zongsan, Li Minghui Karlsson J. 131-150 10.5922/0207-6918-2021-2-5