Yes We Kant: Lectures in Critical Philosophy and the Legacy of the Enlightenment
In celebration of Immanuel Kant’s 300th birthday
The 14th Series of The Spinoza Center
Produced by Prof. Pini Ifergan, Dr. Dror Yinon
This year, 2024, is the 300th birthday of Immanuel Kant, one of the greatest philosophers of the modern era and of Western philosophy in general. It is hard to find an intellectual discipline or an aspect of modern daily life untouched by Kant’s philosophy: the place of human beings in the world and the rational imperatives that bind them shape their scientific activity, moral consciousness, and aesthetic appreciation of the natural environment and the art they create. Kant, perhaps more than any other philosopher, is identified with the Enlightenment, and alongside it has been subject in recent years to reexamination and sharp criticism of its failures, as its problematic aspects are exposed along with disappointment over its unrealized promises of progress, of a steady march toward the improvement of humankind.
As in many places worldwide, the Spinoza Center at the Van Leer Jerusalem Institute will mark the event with a series of lectures on various aspects of Kant’s philosophy that may enrich thinking about current social and political issues.
