Perhaps more than any other philosopher, Immanuel Kant has suffered the praise of having been labeled an historical optimist. Kant’s writings on international affairs have been misconstrued as a ...

To have moral worth, our actions must be motivated by duty, rather than mere sympathy or inclination. As a paradigm of moral ...

In the past, we have covered various scientists and their contributions to their respective professions, but we’ve never touched based on professors of philosophy. Not until now, that is. Immanuel ...

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 ...

Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. In another possible world, more predictable perhaps than the one in which we live, instead of rushing every morning ...

The 18th-century philosopher Immanuel Kant believed that human beings tend to be evil. He wasn’t talking about some guy rubbing his hands and crowing with glee at the prospect of torturing an enemy.

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 ...

Not for the first time, vandals are wreaking havoc in central Europe. Russian police say they're looking for the intellectually minded miscreants who graffitied "Kant is a moron"—along with a flower ...