Immanuel Kant's radical philosophy 

Very insightful and quite balanced video. Thank you Aya and Sabine.

Had Emmanuel Kant lived today he would have likely said "Mainstream media such as DW have taken away the inherent right of the people to think for themselves". 😅

This is a good introduction to some of Kant's ideas, if you want to know more then the best place to go next would be his books!

Will have to start reading his work, this programme should be available in schools to introduce the ideas and ideals of reason, thought and learning, especially tolerance. Thank you for reintroducing Kant to me as he is briefly touched on in sociology and psychology.

Great thought-provoking breakdown of Kant, his life, his times, and his ideas many of which are very worth contemplating and applying today. Thank you, Sabine and Aya.

While the existence of God cannot be proved or disproved through empirical means, according to Kant, belief in God is necessary for his ethical model to function effectively and for moral principles to have meaning and significance.

great video

In gratitude to have this, thanks DW!❤

If you think that you have found an inconsistency in Kant between his claims regarding race and his claims regarding freedom/morality, I suggest that you probably have an incomplete understanding of his work. On this point, it also helps to remember that Kant was, in large part, dependent upon others for his information regarding other cultures. He was apparently an avid reader of travel literature.

It's not just cowardice. It's also just fatigue.

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When I think about what he said at the end, Kant thought in a way that was consistent and in line with what he said at the beginning. What I take from this is the importance of moderation. The second thing I take from this is that the development of each individual's thought is a journey. This requires a determination to continue to seek the truth without fear of contradicting what you say, and to know in order to know (Sapere aude). Finally, I realize that there is not much difference between what Kant said in those days and today.

I'm one of the four Kant scholars featured in this video. Now I regret that I agreed to do the interview: I feel as though I was being used as a token, a mouthpiece to talk about Kant's racist views only to have these dismissed as merely "peripheral" parts of Kant's system that are and should ultimately be crowded out by the supposed "core" of that system (this is the standard but rarely critically reflected move that people make to evade the topic of Kant's racism). In my extensive conversation with the DW journalist who interviewed me, as well as in my book Kant, Race, and Racism (OUP 2023), I explained at pains why there is NO CONTRADICTION between Kant's moral universalism and his racist worldview: his extremely complex and sophisticated philosophical system is capacious enough to accommodate BOTH. But the video doesn't even mention that part of my interview. I understand that the journalists who made this video had to make editorial decisions about what to include and what to exclude. But the agenda here is problematic: I get the impression that it's intended overall to glorify Kant and keep him on the pedestal exactly as he has always stood, so that whatever blemish that's superficially mentioned in passing gets completely overshadowed--and supposedly overcome--by the good parts of his philosophy. By the way, and this is important, here is the exact version of Kant's Formula of Humanity: “So act that you use HUMANITY, whether in your own person or in the person of any other, always at the same time as an end, never merely as a means." In the video, Susan Neiman turned this into a command to treat other HUMAN BEINGS as ends in themselves. This is a misrepresentation of the formula. There is an important conceptual difference between "humanity" (in abstracto) and "human being" (in concreto) for Kant, especially as it pertains to his pure moral philosophy. I won't bore anyone with details here. For those who are interested, you may consult my late advisor Henry Allison's Kant's Groundwork for the Metaphysics of Morals: A Commentary (OUP 2011). Understanding that conceptual difference is also key to understanding WHY there is no contradiction between the teachings of Kant's pure moral philosophy and his racist worldview. I talk about this in the very first chapter of my book.

Thank You so much - so concise and important to know.

"And he wanted refugees to be taken in." I wonder if he lived today in former Prussia now Germany!

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Thank you for this excellent presentation. Unfortunately today there is as much, if not more, challenge to "thinking for one's self". I don't see any, or not much, evidence of any authority persons/figures encouraging people to think for themselves. What struck me in particular was the fact that notwithstanding his high intellect and reasoning ability, the hidden influential authority of some contempary societal 'norms' or 'beliefs' escaped his scrutiny.

DW, It's a great video. Thank you 😊

I tried to but I Kant.

I am grateful to Kant for enriching my life. Of course, I would like to thank the DW team for producing this video for Kant's 300th birthday!

So, Kant told us what we should think and how we should think it.

Kindness to a fault sinks the lifeboat.

Use your ambient ❤

" I am reminded of a great German philosopher, Immanuel Kant. He is a specimen of those people who are absolutely in the mind. He lived according to mind so totally that people used to set their watches, whenever they saw Immanuel Kant going to the university. Never - it may rain, it may rain fire, it may rain cats and dogs, it may be utterly cold, snow falling … Whatever the situation, Kant will reach the university at exactly the same time all the year round, even on holidays. Such a fixed, almost mechanical … He would go on holiday at exactly the same time, remain in the university library, which was specially kept open for him, because otherwise what would he do there the whole day? And he was a very prominent, well-known philosopher, and he would leave the university at exactly the same time every day. One day it happened … It had rained and there was too much mud on the way - one of his shoes got stuck in the mud. He did not stop to take the shoe out because that would make him reach the university a few seconds later, and that was impossible. He left the shoe there. He just arrived with one shoe. The students could not believe it. Somebody asked, “What happened to the other shoe?” He said, “It got stuck in the mud, so I left it there, knowing perfectly well nobody is going to steal one shoe. When I return in the evening, then I will pick it up. But I could not have been late.” A woman proposed to him: “I want to be married to you” - a beautiful young woman. Perhaps no woman has ever received such an answer, before or after Immanuel Kant. Either you say, “Yes,” or you say, “No. Excuse me.” Immanuel Kant said, “I will have to do a great deal of research.” The woman asked, “About what?” He said, “I will have to look in all the marriage manuals, all the books concerning marriage, and find out all the pros and cons - whether to marry or not to marry.” The woman could not imagine that this kind of answer had ever been given to any woman before. Even no is acceptable, even yes, although you are getting into a misery, but it is acceptable. But this kind of indifferent attitude towards the woman - he did not say a single sweet word to her. He did not say anything about her beauty, his whole concern was his mind. He had to convince his mind whether or not marriage is logically the right thing. It took him three years. It was really a long search. Day and night he was working on it, and he had found three hundred reasons against marriage and three hundred reasons for marriage. So the problem even after three years was the same. One friend suggested out of compassion, “You wasted three years on this stupid research. In three years you would have experienced all these six hundred, without any research. You should have just said yes to that woman. There was no need to do so much hard work. Three years would have given you all the pros and cons - existentially, experientially.” But Kant said, “I am in a fix. Both are equal, parallel, balanced. There is no way to choose.” The friend suggested, “Of the pros you have forgotten one thing: that whenever there is a chance, it is better to say yes and go through the experience. That is one thing more in favor of the pros. The cons cannot give you any experience, and only experience has any validity.” He understood, it was intellectually right. He immediately went to the woman’s house, knocked on her door. Her old father opened the door and said, “Young man, you are too late. You took too long in your research. My girl is married and has two children.” That was the last thing that was ever heard about his marriage. From then on no woman ever asked him, and he was not the kind of man to ask anybody. He remained unmarried."

Yes, reason is important to understand and know the world and people around us. Thanks , Team DW ❤

Thanks for introducing me to kant, very relative to modern day world

Excelente video!

Could you translate and published in the Arctic DW

What’s the song at 10:44 ?

Amazing Video! 👏 imo you guys should have included the fact that he would go by the name "Koninsberg Clock" because of his insane discipline 😅

الانظمه هي التي تخلق ثقافه اجتماعيه لتغذي طبقتها ووجودها وتطور نفسها واليات طرق التأثير بالوعي الاجتماعي بحيث تجعل الفرد يتكيف لاشعوريا وفق ايدلوجيتها وخصوصا بعد اكتشاف علم النفس وجيشه من محللين ومحللات نفسيين تابعين للنظام السلطوي ومؤسساته ودورهم في التأثير الاجتماعي الداخلي والخارجي والتلاعب بالميول الاجتماعي وثقافته وفق خليط وتوازن، لهذا تعتبر المعرفه مهمه لفهم الواقع الذي ابتزته الانظمه بأساليبها النفسيه وغير.. في خلق معنى وهدف وقيمه للانسان، وايضا مع المعرفه يمكن احتواء نقاط ضعف العقل وثغراته التي يراهن عليها طبقه طفيليه سلطويه وتابعيهم.

His books are very complex. I don't understand almost anything in his philosophy

I agree with Kant. But the man who says Russia cancels it's treaties needs a kit of reading to see how many treaties the west either refused to ratify, cancelled or simply violated...Vis a vis the ones that Russia/USSR has cancelled or violated or cancelled. Russia declared it's change in strategy in 2008, when the west could simply not be trusted anymore as the facilitator of justice. The west wanted it all and cared not about the interests of other countries.

KUDOS! Yes, Kant is totally relevant today. Also, I believe he did recant his racist views later in life. In any case, overall I think he was one of the greatest philosophers of all time. Thanks for your work on this piece. Kant will be in my fourth book, which I'm just now starting. Happy Trails

How about making one about Schiller? Sehr gut!

They said Immanuel Kant. Immanuel did it anyway.

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Watched all of it

Not a single mention of Transcendental Idealism? Did I miss it?

Achieving world peace would be insane

Yes, a philosopher of morality in his case is found to be not quite above the moral prejudices of his time and living inconsistently with some basic principles (such as ''universality'') of his own moral philosophy! Components of Kant's moral philosophy (also of some others before him), such as the ''golden rule'', still have relevance as a maxim today. (Perhaps, his critique of metaphysics plus components of his epistemology are of more interest for the contemporary world.)

My own philosophical orientation is in the area of what is sometimes called "continental philosophy.' That philosophical tradition would be severely impoverished without the work of Immanuel Kant.

Let's avoid "Presentism" and take the timeless ideas from past thinkers, but also recognize that they were products of their time and may have had flawed thinking.

Karl Jaspers said that Immanuel Kant was Germany's greatest philosopher.

His views on India looks like real...red race is not modernizing their thoughts... We stuck with culture of thousands of years ago Still In my thinking about religion mostly..

Okay! Maybe! I! Will! Try!

MY GOD FUCK YEAH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I AM HIS FOLLOWER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I’m pretty sure he didn’t say any of the stuff they said he did, except for “dare to know”!

The Left have forgotten the root thought of Kant. Tribalism and identity politics ie acceptance of archaic culture without critical analysis has defined the Left for 3 decades now. I was always shocked about his views on race though. It seemed so in conflict with his basic ideas. It's so depressing thinking how far off course the left have gone now.

Kant's telling you you can!

He makes many demands, whilst saying freedom is the ultimate.

And now onto Hegel, and then Fichte. The Geist beckons!

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From these speakers as well as his books I read, I see Kant was "other"--non-European by origin and culture, non-white, he was there against his choice, forcibly conscripted, poor guy, resistant to the fate imposed on him and hence was Black African. His biography also indicates he never married or gave birth---why? Was he a castrated slave abducted and taken to Europe? Why did he 'write' a book in a language no one could read hence not buy?

Honestly, his philosophy sounds pretty much like christian humanism without theism.

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No one is perfect, and hence we shouldn't idolize anybody regardless of his/her achievements. Interesting to me though, the racists or supremacists of the day, at one time or another, were considered bararians, savages, non-cultured or generally inferior, by other tribes/peoples/races. Human spirits are dynamic, everyone, every nation, all have the potential to become dominant in the forseeable future. On a personal level, we should learn from each other, regardless the differences in beliefs, status, knowledge, cultural backgrounds.

Use your brain and look at me for it.

Why human beings are an enemy for one another? 😮

DW really? A doco on Kant, while not using the words he wrote, only commentaries offered by the modern day fatuous ..

It’s ironic , Kant also believed that the colonials in America had the right to eliminate the inferior native population. he believed enlightenment for white people.

The mind is primarily not an active agent, Kant as all western philosophers after the scholastics was a fool.

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Surely Kant failed in chosing 1980s style graphics to represent his ideas.

You still might not disagree with Kants’ racist theories and ideas. The Western European ideology is overwhelmingly dominant in our mother Africa and it’s shocking to know that there is a big number of our people that think that they are less inferior in terms of reason as compared to the other races. Very interesting. Probably a topic that will never be exhausted with today’s influence of cancel culture and race debates.

Meantime Jeremy Bentham snorts silently.

It's about political philosophy not metaphysics

Are you fine?

Political correctness aside, Kant's ideas on races also holds true till this day.

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"....international control..." Nope!

What is less known is that Kant wrote terrible things against the jews.

Saw this in my feed. Sorry, but who are DW to lecture me on using my brain? 😂Preposterous. If I'd ever seen DW using its own brains effectively, I'd hear them out. But I haven't and I won't. So TTFN.

This not my job

okay video. not very philosophical but this is history and culture channel lol

I'll barrow his views on hope ❤

immanuel kant's ethics is pretty not so bold, not less different than a christian theologian.

Good documentary, until the "racist" end. He was a racist, like we all are. Because there ARE differences between the races. Something we should celebrate, and not be condemned for saying out loud. Like the difference between women and men. Hurray and amen.

Good popular video. The contradiction unfortunately is stark between the Kantian ideals and the authoritariam policies the German state is taking towards people protesting against the genicide in Gaza. Ideals are only credible if they are put into practice.

Racism. What a Kant!

That means we must keep trying until we come to know that everything is meaningless???!!! One has to reach this by oneself... It s onesown reality.. Noone can be helped..

taught 7 to 9? , taught who?

Yes, Kant continues to be an important philosophical reference. The reflections he made on public opinion, freedom of conscience, Justice, Politics and Statecraft shaped the modern world. In one of his works, Kant said that even a race of demons could solve the question of how to organize the State, as long as they were intelligent. The Israelis are neither demons nor intelligent. They organized a State that can only exist if it is at permanent war with a portion of its population and with all its neighbors. This is not sustainable, as all militarized and aggressive states were inevitably destroyed, but Israel seems to value the Zionist myth of its creation more than the historical lessons.

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Humanism is discrimination of all non anthropomorphic live and non-human intelligence. So why not to be a racist if you already humanist? You only need strict definition of a "pure" human.

Stop nato

DW comment guidelines are woke, but they call Kant a 'little man'. What utter hypocrisy.

Marx is more relevant today than Kant.

This is not at all an accurate description of what makes Kant an influential philosopher. If you are at all interested, read Kant yourself or find a good history of philosophy book. (WT Jones series is quite good.)

Kant is the most evil person in whole history

1.57 metres when describing height is nonsensical jibberish. How many feet is that?

I don't think so!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Respect God The Father!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

What’s the song at 10:43 ?

Why human beings are an enemy for one another? 😮