Kant's Philosophy

300 years ago Immanuel Kant was born - and I want to dedicate an extensive series of lectures to his whole philosophy. I spent the past year studying the 29 volumes of Kant's collected works and reading at least a 100 pages of Kant every day, in order to now provide the probably most comprehensive and most thorough presentation on his philosophy which has been attempted so far, to show its inner systematic relations and, most of all, to identify Kant's contribution to the aufklärung of humanity.

Kant's Philosophy is a society podcast hosted by The Voice of Reason, with 103 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80. PitchCentric scores this show on Booking Probability, Listen Score, and live audience signals refreshed every 24 hours.

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  Kant's Philosophy

  Kant's philosophy - Rational theology: How can we know God through reason?

  Jul 24, 20262h 4m

  The philosopher does not do revealed theology which presupposes believe in some divine revelation, but tries to have cognition of God through reason alone. Here he is met with the difficulty of how the finite creature may grasp the infinite creator, and most of all with the danger of sliding into anthropomorphism. Quote: 0:08 Rational theology: 0:49 The difficulty of the cognition of God and of anthropomorphism: 6:31 How God can be talked about: 19:15 Via eminentiae: 30:40 Via negationis: 48:33 Via analogiae: 1:09:45 The fields of rational theology: 1:38:18 Kant's architectonic: 1:44:12 Thanks: 2:03:41 Whoever wants to get more in depth concerning Kant's theology and its method should study the lectures on rational theology: https://archive.org/details/kantsgesammeltes0000kant_r0k1/mode/2up, his lectures on metaphysics: https://archive.org/details/kantsgesammeltes0028kant/mode/2up | https://archive.org/details/kantsgesammeltes0028kant_d7g2/mode/2up also contain many remarks on rational theology (I am not aware of a free English translation of either). Whoever wants to support my aufkläring work can do so via: https://ko-fi.com/jonathanivoloewer https://www.patreon.com/jonathanivoloewer https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=VDDT7T7XHR77U Thumbnail: www.hotpot.ai

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  Episode #97

  Kant's philosophy - What is theology?

  Jul 18, 20261h 27m

  While religion is practical, theology is theoretical: A person's theology is the sum of the statements on God he considers to be true. These statements however theology can take from revelation or from reason. And here arises the conflict between the theological and the philosophical faculty on the way through which to gain cognition of God. Quote: 0:08 The philosophy of religion is the crowning conclusion of Kant's philosophy: 0:29 The contemporary neglect of philosophy of religion: 9:46 Theology and religion: 24:29 For true religion, correct theology is helpful but not necessary: 29:35 Revealed theology and rational theology: 41:24 The conflict of the theological and the philosophical faculty: 53:47 Thanks: 1:26:18 Of theology and the conflict between the theological and the philosophical faculty Kant talks in the first section of his Conflict of Faculties (I could not find a free English translation online). Whoever wants to support my aufkläring work can do so via: https://ko-fi.com/jonathanivoloewer https://www.patreon.com/jonathanivoloewer https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=VDDT7T7XHR77U Thumbnail: www.hotpot.ai

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  Episode #96

  Kant's philosophy - What is the highest good?

  Jul 11, 20263h 10m

  All moral action is working towards the realization of the highest good: A world in which people have happiness while also deserving it. But it is Kant's accomplishment to have shown two things: The highest good doesn't mark the beginning but the end of morality, we ought not to realize it because it is good, it is good because we ought to realize it. And the two halves of the highest good cannot be united in the sensual world - whereby it is pointing beyond, towards a supersensual world and forming a bridge from moral philosophy to the philosophy of religion. Quote: 0:08 The highest good in Kant's philosophy: 1:15 The highest good doesn't mark the beginning but the end of morality: 3:34 The highest physical good: 18:15 The highest moral good: 36:36 The highest (ethical) good: 1:02:32 The dialectic of practical reason: 1:18:55 Ancient attempts at solving the dialectic: 1:23:50 The highest physical and moral good are separated: 1:39:11 The highest juridical good: 1:51:31 Most of the time morality and prudence align: 2:03:58 Most people are bad and prefer their adventage over morality: 2:09:27 The common objections against Kant: 2:19:38 Morality is to be prefered over one's own adventage: 2:33:08 The solution of the dialectic of practical reason in religion: 3:02:17 Thanks: 3:09:49 The highest good Kant discusses in his Critique of Pure Reason: https://www.gutenberg.org/files/4280/4280-h/4280-h.htm and most of all in his Critique of Practical Reason: https://www.gutenberg.org/files/5683/5683-h/5683-h.htm Whoever wants to support my aufkläring work can do so via: https://ko-fi.com/jonathanivoloewer https://www.patreon.com/jonathanivoloewer https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=VDDT7T7XHR77U Thumbnail: www.hotpot.ai

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  Episode #95

  Kant's philosophy - Happiness through activity

  Jul 4, 20261h 20m

  Most people seek a passive happiness: Resting, indulging, receiving pleasure. Kant however is aware that there is also an active happiness: Being active, creating, bringing forth meaning. Quote: 0:08 Kant teaches mostly a negative path to happiness: 0:20 Possible sources of happiness: 8:48 Passive & active happiness: 13:45 Why activity is pleasurable: 35:28 The active person doesn't only work but also rests or plays: 54:10 The unity of all sages and philosophers on happiness and how today it is not discussed: 58:33 Thanks: 1:19:42 On activity and the happiness growing out of it Kant never talked comprehensively or systematically but rather made remarks in various places. It is recommended to study especially his lectures on his topic, both his lectures on metaphysics: https://archive.org/details/kantsgesammeltes0028kant/mode/2up | https://archive.org/details/kantsgesammeltes0028kant_d7g2/mode/2up as well as his lectures on anthropology: https://archive.org/details/kantsgesammeltes0000kant_a3n3 | https://archive.org/details/kantsgesammeltes0000kant_j8c0 as well as his lectures on moral philosophy: https://www.archive.org/details/kantsgesammeltes271imma | https://archive.org/details/kantsgesammeltes272imma | https://archive.org/details/kantsgesammeltes0027kant_s1s1/mode/2up (I am not aware of any English translations.) Whoever wants to support my aufkläring work can do so via: https://ko-fi.com/jonathanivoloewer https://www.patreon.com/jonathanivoloewer https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=VDDT7T7XHR77U Thumbnail: www.hotpot.ai

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  Episode #94

  Kant's philosophy - The happy life: Practical idealism and the constantly cheerful heart

  Jun 27, 20262h 23m

  In theoretical regard Kant dismisses the idealism that declares the world to be a mere illusion. Practically, however, we should act as if it was true: We should consider the brevity and vanity of life, treat the world as a children's game and not take anything as important except our moral duty. This is the path to a constantly cheerful heart. Quote: 0:08 Nothing in life has value except our morality: 0:22 Life is short and fleeting: 27:54 Mere life, measured by its pleasure, is worthless: 34:43 Practical idealism: 54:18 The power of imagination as condition of the possibility of practical idealism: 1:21:41 The constantly cheerful heart: 1:51:44 Abstraction as means to a happy life: 2:01:00 Thanks: 2:22:23 The posture of practical idealism and the constantly cheerful heart Kant discusses mainly in his works on anthropology, so in his Anthropology from a pragmatic point of view: http://korpora.org/kant/aa07/230.html, his lectures on anthropology: https://archive.org/details/kantsgesammeltes0000kant_a3n3 | https://archive.org/details/kantsgesammeltes0000kant_j8c0 and his handwritten estate on anthropology: http://korpora.org/kant/aa15/234.html. (I could not find any free English translations online) But also his lectures on logic deal with art at times, that is with the difference between the aesthetical and the logical: https://archive.org/details/kantsgesammeltes241imma/page/n5/mode/2up | https://archive.org/details/kantsgesammeltes242imma/page/n7/mode/2up (English translations exist, but unfortunately I couldn't find them for free on the internet.) You may also gain an impression of Kant's attitude towards life with its brevity and towards death through his Thoughts on the Occasion of Mr. Johann Friedrich von Funk’s Untimely Death https://assets.cambridge.org/97805218/84129/excerpt/9780521884129_excerpt.pdf Whoever wants to support my aufkläring work can do so via: https://ko-fi.com/jonathanivoloewer https://www.patreon.com/jonathanivoloewer https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=VDDT7T7XHR77U Thumbnail: www.hotpot.ai

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