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

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 ...

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 ...

Immanuel Kant, widely regarded as one of the most important thinkers in philosophical history, believed that happiness is not ...

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.

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 ...

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss one of Kant's best known ideas: 'Act only according to that maxim whereby you can, at the same time, will that it should become a universal law'. Show more Melvyn Bragg ...