Kant Futurized (Quintessential Mind, 2023)
The future of philosophy and the future of humankind-in-the-world are intimately related, not only (i) in the obvious sense that all philosophers are “human, all-too-human” animals—i.e., members of the biological species Homo sapiens, and also finite, fallible, and thoroughly normative imperfect in every other way too—hence the natural fate of all human animals is also the natural fate of all philosophers, but also (ii) in the more profound and subtle sense of what I’ll call philosophical futurism. In his essay, “Kantian Futurism,” what Robert Hanna calls philosophical futurism is a critical, synoptic, and speculative reflection on the fate of humankind-in-the-world, with special attention paid not only to what humankind-in-the-world (including philosophy itself) will most likely be, if things continue to go along in more or less the same way as they have been and are now going, or could conceivably be, as in science fiction or other forms of imaginative projection, but also to what what humankind-in-the-world (including philosophy itself) ought to be, and therefore (assuming that “ought” entails “can”) can be, as the direct result of our individual and collective free agency, for the purpose of rationally guiding humankind in the near future. Correspondingly, in that essay, Hanna very briefly presents, defends, and strongly recommends a version of philosophical futurism that he calls Kantian futurism.
REFERENCE
(Quintessential Mind, 2023). Iliopoulos, A. “Immanuel Kant: Anatomizing the Philosopher of Pure Reason.” The Quintessential Mind. Available online at URL = <https://thequintessentialmind.com/immanuel-kant-philosophy/>.
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