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The review surveys the main ideas discussed at the international scientific conference “Immanuel Kant and the ‘New Enlightenment’” hosted by the Immanuel Kant Baltic Federal University (IKBFU) in Kaliningrad on 20-22 April 2022. It was organised by IKBFU’s research unit Academia Kantiana with the support of the Petersburg Dialogue Forum. Speakers analysed the ...

This text is a polemic against the 2023 article by Sergey N. Gradirovsky who wrote about the present-day relevance of Immanuel Kant’s concept of enlightenment and challenged the idea of the modern human being as a child who needs an external guardian or guide to control his behaviour. In my polemic with Gradirovksy I point out that in addition to “self-incurred immaturity” Kant writes about ...

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 ...

In the course of a close analysis of Kant’s essay in which he gives his original answer to the question, “What is Enlightenment?” I examine the causes and consequences of the theses about Enlightenment which makes a plea for emancipation from the shackles of guardianship, above all by getting rid of one’s own cowardice. In search of an answer to the question,...

... 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 ...

... must not dispense justice or rule in a way that is demeaning to his or her greatness. Moreover, the section covers the problem of the rights and obligations of the monarch and his or her subjects in religious matters. This problem was crucial to the Enlightenment. Kant’s deliberations on the issue include a long prehistory of formulating the concept of religious tolerance and modelling relations between the state and different confessions, based on the rules of natural law, which date back to the ...

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 ...

The authors of the idea of a “new Enlightenment”, Ernst von Weizsäcker and Anders Wijkman, in their 2018 report to the Club of Rome analyse the causes of the explosive development of science and technology in the Modern period and come to the conclusion that their triumph and existential ...

... as it is described in the report Come on! Capitalism, Short-termism, Population and the Destruction of the Planet, delivered to the Club of Rome in 2018, requires some analysis. The authors of the report consider Kant to be a philosopher of European Enlightenment which laid the foundations of the modern world, but also proved to be the source of global problems. The report characterises the philosophy of the Enlightenment as lop-sided rationalism which dismisses everything that does not possess desirable ...

... creative activities. The topic of AI creativity becomes pertinent and sparks debates within the scientific community regarding its creative potential. In response to these challenges, members of the Club of Rome in 2018 propose the concept of a new Enlightenment and the principle of balance as a response to the demands of technological development. These ideas underscore the need for a balanced approach to technical progress, taking into account global values and ethical principles. I explore the ...

... 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 ...

The article broaches the issue of Kant’s claim of the enlightenment of the philosophizing subject by tracing his criticism of philosophical enthusiasm (“Schwärmerei”). For Kant intellectual intuition (“intellektuelle Anschauung”) serves in case of philosophical enthusiasm as a reason for the justification ...

The originality of Kant’s answer to the question of the Enlightenment in a 1784 article consisted not in addressing the words of Horace, which was commonplace in Germany of the time, but in linking it to the revised legal notion of immaturity, which is now interpreted from the philosophical and theological ...

... 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 ...

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 ...

... 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 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 ...

... borrowings from it, more apparent. A comparison with his necrology for Funk then shows more explicitly how Kant takes up this ancient philosophy anew for his time, and for his fellow human beings. In so doing, he continued a trend that had begun in the Enlightenment. In Universal Natural History and Theory of Heavens, Kant showed that the world can exist without God’s constant intervention. Human being must understand his position in the cosmos and his radical finitude. Closeness to God can only arise ...

In its 2018 publication, Come On! the Club of Rome advocates the need for a New Enlightenment. It associates Kant with an Old Enlightenment that favours (i) individualism, (ii) rationalism and in general (iii) a lack of balance between different elements such as reason and feelings. In this discussion note, I argue — based on Kant’s ...

... (4): Transcendental Metaphysics, Epistemology and the Philosophy of Mind. Proceedings of International Seminar]. Moscow: GAUGN Press, pp. 42-46. (In Rus.) Kalinnikov, L. A., 2019c. Kant’s System as the Development of Ideological Intentions of the Enlightenment. In: N. A. Dmitrieva and V. A. Chaly, eds. 2019. 12th Kant-Readings. Kant and the Ethics of Enlightenment: Historical Roots and Contemporary Relevance: Proceedings of the International Conference. Kaliningrad: IKBFU Press, pp. 41-42. Kalinnikov,...

... many modern philosophers: the world of culture is turning into an autoch­thonous flicker of hybrid quotations ruins. Gilmanov, V., 2003. Germenevtika «obraza» I. G. Gamana i Prosveshchenie Kalinin­grad [Hermeneutics of Image by J. G. Hamann and Enlightenment]. Kaliningrad (in Russ.). Gilmanov, V., 2005. Crusades of J. G. Hamann against Enlightenment. Vestnik MGU. Ser.: Filosofia [Bulletin of Moscow State University. Ser.: Philosophy], 3, pp. 14—26 (in Russ.). Gilmanov, V., 2013. J. G. Gaman ...

... 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» ...

... zwierzat (rec.) [G. Czelpanow. About mind animals (rev.)] // Przeglad Filozoficzny [Philosophical Review]. № 4, p. 520. 103. Walicki A. 1973, Rosyjska filozofia i mysl spoleczna od Oswiecenia do marksizmu [Russian philosophy and social thought from the Enlightenment to Marxism]. Warsaw. 104. Walicki A. 1979, A history of Russian thought from the Enlightenment to Marxism. Trans. H. Andrews-Rusiecka. Stanford. 105. Walicki A. 1980, A history of Russian thought from the Enlightenment to Marxism. Trans....

.... Political Review. Almanac] 2005. No. 2. P. 7—14. URL: http:// www. politex. info/content/view/153/30/ (accessed on 22.06.2015) 4. Zilber, А. S. 2014, «Negativnaja mudrost'» politicheskogo Prosveshhenija [The „Negative Wisdom“ of Political Enlightenment], in: XI Kantovskie chtenija: Kantovskij proekt prosveshhenija segodnja: materialy mezhdunarodnoj konferencii [XI Kant Readings: Kant's Enlightenment Project Today: Proceedings of the International Conference]. Kaliningrad. P. 178—181....

The originality of Kant’s answer to the question of the Enlightenment in a 1784 article consisted not in addressing the words of Horace, but in linking it to the revised legal notion of immaturity, which is now interpreted from the philosophical and theological perspective and has become one of key philosophical ...

... 2022. IV Letnyaya shkola po izucheniyu naslediya Immanuila Kanta. Uchenie Kanta o voyne i mire v filosofii Prosveshcheniya i nemetskogo idealizma [The Fourth International Kant Summer School. Kant’s Doctrine of War and Peace in the Philosophy of the Enlightenment and German Idealism]. Proceedings of the International Scientific Conference, Zelenogradsk, Kaliningrad Region, 24—31 July 2022. Kaliningrad: IKBFU Press. Kant, I., 2000. Critique of the Power of Judgment. Edited by P. Guyer. New York: ...

... the pre-critical period. Accordingly, the moral sense is no longer a sensation, but occupies a place in-between feelings as such and reason. Abramov, M. A., 2000. Shotlandskaya filosofiya veka Prosveshcheniya [Scottish Philosophy of the Age of Enlightenment]. Moscow: IFRAN. (In Rus.) Apressyan, R. G., 2007. Kant and the Ethics of Moral Sense. In: N. V. Motroshilova, ed. 2007. Immanuil Kant: nasledie i proekt [Immanuel Kant: Legacy and Project]. Moscow: Kanon+, pp. 259-271. (In Rus.) Apressyan,...

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 ...

In this article, I consider the institution of constitutional control and its development during the Enlightenment. I stress that enlighteners thoroughly disapproved of French parliaments as forerunners of modern bodies of consti­tutional justice and explain why this was the case. In an early modern state, conditions for constitutional control and its ...

The movement for the revival of the Scholastic tradition (Neo-Scholasticism) was a reaction to devastating criticism by the representatives of Enlightenment which led to the destruction of traditional metaphysics and of epistemological optimism, the two pillars of European religious philosophy. Reception of Kantian ideas in Neo-Scholasticism varied from total rejection to its use in renewing ...

... the history of the concept of universality in morality, but also to our assessment of the contribution of individual authors and entire eras to the progress of human civilisation. This concerns above all the moral theory of contractarianism and the Enlightenment. Focus on their ideas goes a long way to determining the direction of current historical-philosophical research that reconstructs the history of ethical teachings and individual concepts. The importance attached today to a new view of the ...

... Struktura dialoga kak printsip raboty semioticheskogo mekhanizma [Sign Systems Studies. 17: The structure of the dialogue as the principle of the semiotic mechanism]. Tartu, pp. 5—23 (in Russ.). Lotman, Yu. M., 1989. Word and language in the culture of Enlightenment. In: I. E. Danilova, ed. Vek Prosveshcheniya: Rossiya i Frantsiya: materialy nauchnoi konfer­entsii “Vipperovskie chteniya — 1987 ” [The Age of Enlightenment: Russia and France: proceedings of the scientific conference “Vipper ...

.... Engels, 1975. Collected Works. Volume 1: Marx, 1835–1843. Moscow: Progress Publishers; London: Lawrence & Wishart, pp. 203-210. Mezhevich, V. S., 1833. Hegel. In: Teleskop. Zhurnal sovremennogo prosveshchenija [Telescope. Journal of Contemporary Enlightenment Telescope. Journal of Contemporary Enlightenment], edited by N. I. Nadezhdin, 16(15), pp. 381-397. (In Rus.) Mitin, M. B., ed. 1934. Dialekticheskij i istoricheskij materializm v 2-h chastjah. Uchebnik dlja komvuzov i vtuzov. Part 1: Dialekticheskij ...

... Higher-Order Theories of Consciousness. In: S. Schneider and M. Velmans, eds. 2017. The Blackwell Companion to Consciousness. Hoboken. N. J.: Wiley-Blackwell, pp. 288-297. Home, H., 2005. Essays on Principles of Morality and Natural Religion. Natural Law and Enlightenment Classics. Indianapolis: Liberty Fund. Hume, D., 1960. A Treatise of Human Nature. Reprinted from the original edition in 3 volumes and edited, with an Analytical Index, by L. A. Selby-Bigge. Oxford: Clarendon Press. Ivanenko, A. A., 2012....

... l’Académie Royale des Sciences & Belles-Lettres de Prusse pour l’année 1759. Nouvelle bibliothèque germanique, ou histoire littéraire de l’Allemagne, de la Suisse, & des Pays du Nord, 21(1), pp. 201-204. 3. Berlin, I., 2013. Three Critics of the Enlightenment: Vico, Hamann, Herder, 2nd ed. Princeton: Princeton University Press. 4. Devitt, M., Sterelny, K., 1999. Language and Reality, 2nd ed. Oxford: Blackwell. 5. Dragalina-Chernaya, E. G., 2018. Consequences and Design in General and Transcendental ...

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 ...

... 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. ...

... history of probability calculus as a method to describe historical chronology. The nature of Condorcet’s thoughts on the wide interdisciplinary opportunities of mathematics makes it possible to compare his ideas with those of other philosophers of the Enlightenment (Rousseau, Montesquieu, Voltaire, and Diderot), as well as a number of provisions of Kant’s philosophy. Despite the fact that Condorcet was not familiar with Kant’s works, his general ideas on the autonomous subject, their reason and ...

... This was the era of pietism. However, in Königsberg of the first half of the 18th century, pietism was not determined solely by the dogmatics of orthodox Lutheranism. Adherents of pietism demonstrate soteriological will to improve the world through enlightenment, which contradicts the predestination dogma. This will is found not only in Kant’s philosophical and pedagogical endeavours, but also in Donelaitis’s pedagogy, which deserves serious attention. Despite his deeply pietistic education,...

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... Chaly, V., 2018. Kantianism and Anti-Kantianism in Russian Revolutionary Thought. Con-Textos Kantianos. International Journal of Philosophy, 8, pp. 218-241. http://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.2331766 Dmitrieva, N. A., 2007a. Philosophy of Humanism and Enlightenment: Criteria, Specificity, and Problems of Russian Neo-Kantianism. Filosofskie nauki, 1, pp. 101-119. (In Rus.) Dmitrieva, N. A., 2007b. Russkoe neokantianstvo: “Marburg” v Rossii [Russian Neo-Kantianism: “Marburg” in Russia]. Moscow: ...

... Krouglov A. N., 2021a. The Teaching of Reason by Christian Thomasius. In: A.N. Krouglov, ed. 2021. “Venskaya logika” I. Kanta [“The Vienna Logic” by I. Kant]. Moscow: Kanon+, pp. 12-30. (In Rus.) Krouglov, A. N., 2021b. Frontispieces in German Enlightenment Logic Textbooks as Programmatic Visual Aids. Logiko-filosofskie shtudii [Logico-Philosophical Studies], 19(1), pp. 12-90. https://doi.org/10.52119/LPHS.2021.54.16.002 (In Rus.) Krouglov A. N., 2021c. Christian Wolff’s Logic. In: A. N....

... Observations on the Feeling of the Beautiful and Sublime and Other Writings. Edited by P. Frierson and P. Guyer. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 65-204. Kaploun, V., 2021. The Origins of Russian Political Modernity: Did Radishchev “Crib” His Enlightenment Project from Kant? (And If So, Why Didn’t He Cite the Source?). Logos, 31(5), pp. 27-57. Karamsin, N., 1803. Travels from Moscow, through Prussia, Germany, Switzerland, France, and England. Volume 1. Translated from the German [by A.A....