Back to Objectivism Criticism: in Response to "Kant at the Masked Ball" Paper by Stephen R. C. Hicks
This blog post is in response to the text at https://reasonpapers.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/rp_431_2.pdf. I am resposting this response from my Twitter account. Thomas William Dowling @thomaswdowling tweeted: "Stephen Hicks thinks that the founder of the counter-Enlightenment was... Immanuel Kant. Don't waste your time or money." In response to which I tweeted the following: @thomaswdowling is correct in his criticism. However, that doesn't mean you'd be wasting your money. It's necessary to learn from the errors of others in order to avoid making their mistakes. According to Hicks, 'Moses Mendelssohn, Kant’s contemporary, identifies him as “the all-destroyer,” fearful that Kantian philosophy cuts off all access to true reality.' I tweeted that Kant successfully argued that mankind never had access to "true reality" (noumena) to begin with. Moses Mendelssohn, on the other hand, needed to prove that such access ...