E01 Immanuel Kant

Immanuel Kant - What can I know? - What should I do? - What may I hope? - What is the human?

In these podcasts, we zig-zag through space and time, traveling through philosophical history, attempting to address a condition that affects us all: the human condition. We will see that there might not be a single condition but many ways of being a human, multiple conditions. And are we even human?

Immanuel Kant, the most influential Enlightenment philosopher, summarizes his project as follows:

“All interest of my reason, the speculative as well as the practical, is united in the following three questions” (A 804/B 832)

“What can I know?” What are the limits of knowledge? Knowing these limits brings us to the second question, “What should I do?” And “If I do what I should do,” Kant says, there follows a third question: “What may I then hope?” (ibid.)

In his lectures on Logik, Kants adds a fourth question. For him, the fourth question is the most fundamental one, as the previous three are rooted in this question: what is the human?