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This added to classical liberalism's support of the freedom of speech and of the press. This all played a part in Kant's desire to apply reason to practical life. In The Conflict of the Faculties, he wrote in defense of the openness of the university as "an institution that exists to serve governments…and [bring about] enlightening ends" (Clarke 1997, 53-54). Thus once knowledge was separated from values, it could be harnessed to serve the human project. One area where Kant had an impact beyond philosophy has been in international relations theory. "According to the classical view of international politics, the international sphere is composed of sovereign states and characterized by anarchy" (Bartelson 1995, 257). People have order in their native land but see the rest of the world as "chaotic." With Kantian thought in mind, some have tried to envision a sovereign state as being the parallel of the individual faculty of reason and the international arena as the place of physical reality (Bartelson 1995, 259-261). Internationalist institutions like the United Nations then seek to transcend the conflict between nation-states and inter-national anarchy. This to some extent is the result of the influence of Kant.
Of all the eighteenth century thinkers, Kant surely is one of the...
His theories of epistemology and knowledge laid the groundwork for much of the ensuing two centuries of Western thought. Kant sought to extract man from the coldness of empirically-based philosophy while also saving him from the unending sea of pure rationalism. He desired a balance not only in the interests of human knowledge but also in the interests of bettering the human condition. As such, he truly was a Luminary and a man of the Enlightenment.
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Ames, Edward Scribner. "The Religion of Immanuel Kant." The Journal of Religion 5:2
(1925): 172-177.
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