Tang Chun-I Visiting Professorship Public Lecture: Some Reflections on Kant and Cosmopolitanism
Prof. Michael N. Forster |
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4:30 – 6:30 pm |
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College Theatre, Wu Yee Sun College (with synchronous online broadcast) |
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Abstract:
Kant is famous as a champion of moral cosmopolitanism. Pauline Kleingeld has given an impressive sympathetic interpretation of his position. However, in this talk I will take a more critical view of it, arguing that it is inadequate in several fundamental respects – including racism, sexism, moral universalism, imperialism/colonialism, and the propagation of cosmopolitan intuitions – and that in each case Kant’s student Herder developed much better positions.
Conducted in English
All are welcome