Freedom in Kant: A Practical Critique
Event date and time
Wednesday 18 January 2023, 4.00pm to 5:30 pm
Location
Via Zoom and Department of Philosophy, Sally Baldwin Building, Block A, Room I/A/009
Admission
Departmental colloquium members and postgraduate students
Event details
Speaker(s): Dr Joe Saunders, Durham University
Kant finds a way to maintain our freedom in the face of natural necessity. In doing so, he hopes to secure freedom and morality. But he also cuts freedom off from experience, which generates serious practical problems. In this talk, I talk through Kant's theory of freedom, and two practical problems. The problems concern moral paternalism, and what it means to be good to someone as an agent.