Engraving of Kant at his desk (Birck, 18th century)
In his essay “Kantian Futurism” (Hanna, 2024), Robert Hanna argued that all foreseeably future philosophy worldwide will be a series of positive or negative footnotes to Kant. Moreover, as regards negative footnotes, the 140-year-long anti-Kantian tradition of Analytic philosophy is in fact now coming to an end, as post-classical Analytic philosophy crashes, burns, and goes down forever into the ash-heap of history. And as regards positive footnotes, obviously orthodox Kantianism is historically and philosophically backward-looking, not forward-looking. Therefore, (i) the times they are a-changing, and (ii) the near-future emergence of some or another creatively revised-&-updated version of Kant’s philosophy, as the central and dominant world philosophy, is historically inevitable. For all these reasons, forward to Kant! must be humankind’s philosophical futurist rallying cry. But on what rational grounds can Kantianism justify its claim to be the ultimate form of philosophy? This in turn is equivalent to the question, what is Kant’s Critical and post-Critical philosophy and how can it be rationally justified?
REFERENCE
(Hanna, 2024). Hanna, R. “Kantian Futurism,” Journal of Philosophical Investigations 18, 47 (2024): 1-8. Available online at URL = <https://philosophy.tabrizu.ac.ir/article_18254.html?lang=en>.
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