Summary
Ivan Vuković: Imitation of God: an intimate history of Kant's philosophy
Immanuel Kant is remembered as a great ancestor. We remember him as a thinker of modern rationality who fought against superstition and confused metaphysics. We remember him as a theoretician of republican freedom who criticized the hereditary nobility and opposed the authority of church dogmatics to the authority of science. We believe that his philosophy, which was created at the junction of two epochs, dealt one of the decisive blows to the time of kings and cardinals, the time of silk leggings and wigs. In their place, this philosophy installed a new master who measures and curbs the chaotic movements he finds in the world with his own standards, and justifies his actions by referring to universal principles: in Kant's philosophy we see the articulation of the self-awareness of a completely rational, skeptical and responsible man.
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