The Experience of Freedom and Responsibility in Kant's Philosophy and Their Implementation in the Modern World.
Democratisation
Political Psychology
Decision Making
Ethics
Technology
Empirical
Theoretical
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Abstract
Even though a considerable amount of time has passed since Kant's philosophy was developed, it remains relevant today. Freedom is a core concept in Kant's philosophy. Nowadays, because of changes in technological civilisation, the same questions about the contemporary understanding of freedom, what internal freedom and external freedom mean to us, are being asked again. Kant reveals this in both his Critique of Pure Reason and his Critique of Practical Reason. However, the Critique of Judgement becomes the binding force. The concepts of epistemology and ethics are grounded in ontology, the question of being. Kant understands freedom in various ways as autonomy, spontaneity, sovereignty, but also independence. It is significant for the contemporary world dominated by technical sciences, which are based on the principles of causality. The possibility of humans deciding for themselves, following principles in an era when most events are presented through the prism of causality. Kant's philosophy, whose key element is freedom, is determined by the concept of cause and effect. This also has an impact on the process of democratisation of societies. Kant approached democracy with great distance, contrasting it with a system based on law, but through the supremacy of freedom, he presents it as the most important element of his own philosophy. However, since Kant's time, the question of human perception has become important. Another philosopher, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, also refers to it in his work Phenomenology of Perception. The problem of the struggle between empiricism and intellectualism is to show perception as an important element of philosophy. The opposite of multisensory perception is treating the external world through the prism of the third grammatical person. Kant's philosophy, however, is a philosophy focused on the subject, the subjectum, and its cognition of itself and the world. However, Kant's philosophy fails to show the relationship between subjects in a fundamental way. In today's age of technology, contemporary philosophy needs to focus on perception, which is constituted in relation to other subjects. This is responsibility for others and for oneself based on freedom understood as openness. The critical thinking that philosophy provides plays and will continue to play an important role in the process of democratisation of society. It should be the foundation of contemporary technical civilisation.