The publication of Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason was an earth-shattering moment. Not only was reason and its presuppositions seriously critiqued for the first time. The Kantian revolution also firmly placed the human mind in the centre of cognition ensuring the validity of formal logic and scientific findings before any experience. If you wish to gain an understanding of our age, Kant’s critical philosophy is indispensable. For it is precisely by transcendental logic that flying airplanes becomes possible.
In honour of Immanuel Kant’s 300th birthday in April 2024 we are offering a 9 week Masterclass on his Critical Philosophy. Focusing largely on the First Critique and themes such as time and space; logic; the categories; refutation of idealisms; the antinomies of reason; phainomena and noumena; we will also devote a lecture each on his second and third critique. Here we will focus on freedom and on the genius in art as well as the sublime. In this way we gain an insight into the entirety of the Kantian project.
Kant's First Critique