The feeling of beauty, uniquely, bridges the divide between the objective, deterministic world of nature and knowledge and the subjective, free world of judgment and morality. That’s why computers, ...

In April, 1745, God appeared to a Swedish civil servant named Emanuel Swedenborg in a London tavern. Swedenborg was no wild-eyed prophet but, rather, a fifty-seven-year-old scientist and engineer who ...

Anyone who relies on the voice of reason cannot ignore Immanuel Kant. April 22 marks the 300th anniversary of the German philosopher's birth. What does the author of ...

It was claimed Immanuel Kant’s routine was so predictable his neighbours could set their clocks by his daily walk. Born in 1724 in the Prussian town of Königsberg (now Kaliningrad, Russia), Kant had a ...

For Immanuel Kant (1724–1804), a good disposition is the ideal endpoint, and not the necessary starting point, of moral progress. (clu / iStock / Getty Images) But to understand how we can realise ...

The nineteen-nineties were a dead zone for the U.S. distribution of international and independent films. While a handful of flashy breakout hits were being widely hailed (and over-hailed), many of the ...