Freedom in Kant: A Practical Critique

  • 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

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.

Dr Joe Saunders, Durham University