Three conversations with Samuel Woodall and Jack Thomson follow Kant from Enlightenment and independent judgement through the limits of knowledge to freedom and moral responsibility.
Three episodes · Listen in order · Total audio: 1 hour 7 minutes 38 seconds
Durations are for the published Buzzsprout audio editions; video runtimes may differ.
1. Who Was Kant, and What Is Enlightenment?
Audio: 22:03
Begin with Kant’s life, the courage to think for ourselves and the relationship between reason and authority.
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Episode guide, chapters and reading references · Read the companion essay · Join the discussion
2. What Can We Really Know? Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason
Audio: 20:20
Explore Hume’s challenge, the conditions of experience, appearances and things in themselves, and the limits of theoretical reason.
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3. What Makes an Action Moral? Freedom, Duty and the Categorical Imperative
Audio: 25:15
Turn to good will, duty, universal law, dignity and autonomy, and ask how morality can express freedom.
Episode guide, chapters and reading references · Read the companion essay · Join the discussion
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Start with “What Is Enlightenment?”, then the second-edition Preface to the Critique of Pure Reason and sections I and II of the Groundwork. Each episode guide provides its reading route. The available TIH companion essays explore independent judgement and moral freedom; episode 2’s reading notes are on its episode page.
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