Immanuel Kant

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  11/11/2021
  

  Allen Guelzo: Critical Race Theory Started with Kant, Who Also Enabled Marxism and Nazism

  by Marc Thiessen

  Post columnist Marc Thiessen presents excerpts from his interview with historian Allen Guelzo, who offers a new explanation for where critical race theory originated. 

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• SOURCE: Talking Points Memo
  9-16-13
  

  Russian Shot In Argument Over Kant’s Philosophy

  It was not clear which of Kant’s ideas may have triggered the violence.

• SOURCE: NYT
  2-10-13
  

  Justin E. H. Smith: The Enlightenment’s ‘Race’ Problem, and Ours

  Justin E. H. Smith teaches philosophy at Concordia University in Montreal. His most recent book is “Divine Machines: Leibniz and the Sciences of Life.” He is a contributing editor of Cabinet Magazine, and writes regularly on his blog.In 1734, Anton Wilhelm Amo, a West African student and former chamber slave of Duke Anton Ulrich of Braunschweig-Wolfenbüttel, defended a philosophy dissertation at the University of Halle in Saxony, written in Latin and entitled “On the Impassivity of the Human Mind.” A dedicatory letter was appended from the rector of the University of Wittenberg, Johannes Gottfried Kraus, who praised “the natural genius” of Africa, its “appreciation for learning,” and its “inestimable contribution to the knowledge of human affairs” and of “divine things.” Kraus placed Amo in a lineage that includes many North African Latin authors of antiquity, such as Terence, Tertullian and St. Augustine.