Out of Time
Out of Time
Honolulu
Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at the University of Southern Maine
Robert B. Louden is Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at the University of Southern Maine.
His publications include:
Johann Bernhard Basedow and the Transformation of Modern Education (Bloomsbury, 2021),
Anthropology from a Kantian Point of View (Cambridge University Press, 2021),
Kant’s Human Being (Oxford University Press 2011), The World We Want (OUP 2007),
Kant’s Impure Ethics (OUP 2000), and
Morality and Moral Theory (OUP 1992).
A past president of the North American Kant Society (2009-2014), Louden is also editor and translator of two volumes in the Cambridge Edition of the Works of Immanuel Kant.
OUT OF TIME
Hawaii - 9h
Brasil - 16h
Kaliningrad - 21h
Versions of many of the same global ethics concerns currently on people's minds sparked my initial interest in Kant's practical philosophy half a century ago -- e.g., international justice, war and peace, the natural environment, artificial intelligence, and human rights.
Although it would be wildly imprudent to suppose that Kantian theory should serve as a precise blueprint for contemporary policy, I do believe that we today can still learn a great deal from his perspective on global ethics. But why has so little progress been made on these issues?
In this essay I offer a Kantian response to the question.
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