Not everything is rewarded
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.” We don’t necessarily…
The threat of humanity in the age of artificial intelligence
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 and coexistence are…
The dialectic of liberalism
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. But its appeal…