https://philosophie-delor.github.io/en/tags/human-dignity/Recent content in Human Dignity on Philosophie-DelorHugoenFrieder DelorSat, 21 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://philosophie-delor.github.io/en/satire/kants-imperativ/Sat, 21 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://philosophie-delor.github.io/en/satire/kants-imperativ/<p>This is the first part of a two-part critique of Kant. The second part — <a href="https://philosophie-delor.github.io/en/satire/kants-idealissmus/">As Free as a Turnspit</a> — covers Kant&rsquo;s synthetic a priori judgments, his acausal free will, and the question of why the supposed champion of Enlightenment had to suspend knowledge in order to make room for faith.</p> <hr> <p>On the third planet of the binary star system Königsberg-7, there lived a civilisation that had solved a remarkable problem: it had developed an ethics that could under no circumstances fail the test of reality. Not because it was particularly good, but because it was constructed so that reality was fundamentally not competent to judge moral questions. Morality came from pure reason. Reality was empirical. And between the two ran a border that was considered logically impossible to cross.</p>