1848+: Last and First Men

A discussion of Kant, the movie The Matrix, and the French Revolution

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One of the components of Marxism that led to much of its later confusion can be seen in Marx’s rejection of ethical idealism, a strain of Marx’s thinking that is too often disguised and unaddressed, and which invariably takes its idealistic fans by surprise, if it enters consciousness at all.
The grounds for all of this, [...]

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Amazon review of Kant’s Politics, on the issue of ‘Freedom’s Causality

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Beginning of Harry Van Der Linden’s Kantian Ethics And Socialism, Hackett, 1988
Around the turn of the century the neo-Kantian socialist Hermann Cohen wrote in his Introduction and Critical Epilogue to Friedrich Albert Lange’s History of Materialism that Kant “is the true and real originator of German socialism.’” His claim, of course, is not to be [...]

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Relevant to our consideration:
From The New Hegelians, Politics and Philosophy in the Hegelian School, ed. Douglas Moggach, Cambridge, 2006
In Religion within the Boundaries of Mere Reason Kant strips down the Christian religion to what he regards as its moral core. This is the pursuit of virtue with the aim of founding with all others a [...]

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The question of the philosophy of history hovers ambiguously between Kant and Hegel. The study of the eonic effect adopts a variant of the Kantian concept as it appears in his essay on history, Idea For A Universal History, and proceeds to construct an eonic model, one that can bring a fresh perspective on the [...]

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