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Editorial

The World in Kant’s Head

by Rick Lewis

“Our age is the age of criticism, to which everything must submit. Religion through its holiness and legislation through its majesty commonly seek to exempt themselves from it. But in this way they excite a just suspicion against themselves, and cannot lay claim to that unfeigned respect that reason grants only to that which has been able to withstand its free and public examination.”
Immanuel Kant, Critique of Pure Reason, 1781

In many ways, Immanuel Kant was a man for our times. The bewigged eighteenth century thinker sat at home for years, reading and writing, taking a walk once a day, barely ever travelling more than a few miles from his home town, yet he tried to set down some universal truths about what we can know, what people are, and how we should all live.

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