The Theological Trap and the Intellectual Racism of Pure Reason
Deconstructing the Mandarin of Königsberg, Part 6 For generations, Immanuel Kant has been celebrated as the supreme secular champion of the European Enlightenment. Traditional academic narratives insist that his ethical system is based entirely on pure, objective reason, accessible to any rational being regardless of their religious faith. However, a rigorous textual analysis of Kant’s later writings reveals a profoundly different reality. Kant’s moral framework is deeply entangled in a „God-Bias“—a theological trap that not only compromised his epistemology but ultimately led him to construct a pseudoscientific, racist hierarchy of humanity. The Illusion of Secular Ethics and the…