Den Fortschritt durch rationales Denken zu fördern - das forderte die Aufklärung. Der erste, der eine Definition der Aufklärung lieferte, war Immanuel Kant in seinem berühmten Essay aus dem Jahre 1784...

Immanuel Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason can lay claim to being the most important single work of modern philosophy, a work whose methodology, if not necessarily always its conclusions, has had a profound influence on almost all subsequent philosophical discourse. In this work Kant addresses...

The Critique of Practical Reason was published in 1788, seven years after Immanuel Kant's major work, Critique of Pure Reason. In it, Kant sets out his moral philosophy - and it proved a seminal text in the history of the subject. He argues that the summum bonum (the highest good) of life is...