Kant’s Authoritarian State
Deconstructing the Mandarin of Königsberg # 7 Over the past six weeks, we have systematically dismantled the intellectual fortress of Immanuel Kant. We have exposed his physical and cosmological errors, stripped away the solipsistic illusion of his transcendental idealism, and revealed the rigid, anti-empirical nature of his duty-bound ethics. We have even uncovered the dark theological trap that led the „Giant of the Enlightenment“ to formulate an explicit hierarchy of intellectual racism. Now, as we approach the conclusion of this series, we must confront the ultimate socio-political fallout of his system: if Kant’s epistemology isolates us from reality…