Kant after 200 Years

On the occasion of the 200th anniversary of Immanuel Kant's death on February 12, 1804 we honour Kant by discussing his philosophy and thereby expressing what his philosophy means to us. In doing so, we testify the continuing significance of this philosophy and its relevance for our own philosophising. When this discussion takes place among philosophers from East and West, this indicates that Kant's philosophy has become a world philosophy for some time, in accordance with the cosmopolitan character of Kant's thinking. In the course of the 200 years after Kant's death, there have again and again been attempts to portray his way of thinking as specifically German or even Prussian. But for Kant himself there was no question that in the end mankind as such, and in fact not only of his own age, was the addressee of his teaching and his works.