https://philosophie-delor.github.io/en/categories/enlightenment/Recent content in Enlightenment on Philosophie-DelorHugoenFrieder DelorSun, 22 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://philosophie-delor.github.io/en/satire/kants-idealissmus/Sun, 22 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://philosophie-delor.github.io/en/satire/kants-idealissmus/<p>This is the second part of a two-part critique of Kant. The first part — <a href="https://philosophie-delor.github.io/en/satire/kants-imperativ//">&ldquo;The Two Dogmas of Königsberg-7&rdquo;</a> — deals with the categorical imperative and universal human dignity.</p> <h2 id="as-free-as-a-turnspit">As Free as a Turnspit<a class="anchor" href="#as-free-as-a-turnspit" aria-label="Link"></a></h2> <p>The civilisation of Königsberg-7, whose demolition was documented in <a href="https://philosophie-delor.github.io/en/satire/kants-imperativ/">Part 1</a>, has since gone extinct. Galactic archaeology has never conclusively established whether the extinction bore any relation to the Königsbergers&rsquo; philosophy. The Königsbergers themselves would have emphatically denied any connection. After all, their philosophy was not empirical, and the extinction was.</p>