Liberalism as the Ideology of Consummate Meaninglessness, Part 2

Michael O'Meara

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Part 1 here, Part 3 here

Immanuel Kant, the first to philosophize the “question of freedom,” approaches the world like Descartes. He begins with Cartesianism’s dehistoricized, peopleless subject, which is seen as an “ends in itself,” something that is to be “freed” for the sake of its “self-assured self-legislation.”

This prompts Kant to treat …