300 Years of Immanuel Kant. A Reason to Believe

... grinded by soulless bureaucratic machinery and alienated from their own nature. At the same time, traditional values have been eroded, creating a void of spiritual guidance and a degradation of even strong social institutions such as the family. The philosophy of the 20 th century has been permeated with a critique of modern society, reason’s potential, and the costs of progress. Additionally, history itself has begun to yield to historical mythmaking. Historical events have become fodder for “imagining” the identity of contemporary states. History as a scientific discipline ...