Ep. 494 I IMMANUEL KANT AND LIBERTARIANISM

Podcast: Thorsten Polleit · Thorsten Polleit

Opublikowano: 2026-09-04

Lecture by Thorsten Polleit, 15 August 2026, F. A. v. Hayek Club Weimar. The main theses can be summarized as follows (thanks, AI): 1. The meaning of Enlightenment according to Kant Enlightenment is man’s emergence from self-incurred immaturity by having the courage to use his own reason (“sapere aude”). Freedom and independent thinking are not guaranteed and do not happen by themselves; they must be won against unfreedom and ideological paternalism (e.g. socialism, communism, and today’s political currents). 2. Kant’s epistemology as foundation Immanuel Kant (1724–1804) distinguishes between statements that depend on experience (a posteriori) and those that are independent of experience...