Dare to Know, or the Gospel According to Kant
... everyone’s special kind of guilt. Following Kant, I look for an answer to the question, “Which limits impede Enlightenment, and which limits, far from obstructing it, are bound to promote it?” and reveal the hidden paradox of the Kantian solution: maturity has to be preceded by the granting of freedoms; and the granting of freedoms in turn calls for a mature public. I also ask the question, “Whose yoke is heavier, one’s own or the guardian’s?” and offer my version of an answer. In conclusion,...
Reclaiming the “Cultural Mandate”: The Idea of Sustainable Development in the Kantian Perspective
... sources of progressivist commitment to the conquest of nature which lie outside Modern Times in the idea of the “cultural mandate”. Then I present the Kantian diagnosis of the causes of the crisis which attributes it to humankind’s failure to “mature”. I compare the idea of “the full world” formulated by the authors of the report with the idea of the “the world come of age” and their diagnosis of “capitalism — short-termism — depletion of resources” with the Kantian assessment ...
Immanuel Kant and the “New Enlightenment”. International Conference Report
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https://doi.org/10.1016/j.shpsa.2022.05.003
Zuboff, S., 2018. The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power. London: Profile Books.
Kant, Enlightenment, “new Enlightenment”, Club of Rome, maturity, balance, progress
132-145
10.5922/0207-6918-2023-1-7
