DE Weekly: Kant, Kantianism, & Transcendental Idealism

Existentialism came into its own as a bona fide philosophical discipline in the twentieth century but, as I’ve written in the past, it traces its roots to centuries before it was coined. I believe one such “root” is German philosopher Immanuel Kant, an eighteenth-century Aufklärung (Enlightenment) thinker whose moral ethics have had a major impact on Western philosophy.

Kant’s ethical framework has had such a major impact, in fact, that it’s often referred to as Kantianism.