Author, Philosopher, Theologian
The limits of economic rationality “What should I do?” – Immanuel Kant defined this question as one of the core questions of what makes a person human. Today, we usually answer this question with: “What makes me happy and satisfied.” Read More …
Since the machine started talking to us, the topic of artificial intelligence is back in fashion. Some even expect humans to be replaced by a super-intelligence. The ideas are anything but new. They rely on us forgetting that human life Read More …
Almost 250 years ago, Immanuel Kant defined the Enlightenment as man’s emergence from his self-inflicted immaturity. Since then, liberalism as a philosophical, political and economic movement has invoked this individual maturity and has shaped Western societies and their economic systems. Read More …
When Jean Baudrillard wrote about consumer society in 1970, he was looking back on almost 30 years of continuous economic growth. The French Trente Glorieuses, the glorious thirties, had quadrupled the GDP per capita and created unprecedented prosperity. The term “miracle”, Read More …