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Relatively Different
Dear Editor: I read with great interest Professor Mark Couch’s essay, ‘Should Kant Be Canceled’ in Issue 148. As someone who finds the Cancel Movement distressing and self-defeating, I am in sympathy with the general thrust of his opposition to ‘canceling the past’. However, I don’t think Prof. Couch did his mission justice by arguing that just as we would not cancel Einstein’s Theory of Relativity because Einstein made some inappropriate statements we also should not discard Kant’s enormously influential ethical theory just because he wrote an essay arguing for the superiority of the white Europeans over other races. The difference between Einstein’s and Kant’s cases is neither trivial nor incidental.
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