About the lecture

In this module, we introduce Kant’s thought, focusing particularly on (i) the nature of critique (ii) Kant’s view of human beings (iii) the distinction between human beings and non-human animals (iv) the political implications of Kant’s work (v) tensions between Kant’s philosophy, his personal views, and modern liberalism.

About the lecturer

Sacha Golob read Philosophy as an undergraduate at Pembroke College, Cambridge before completing the BPhil in Philosophy at Merton College, Oxford. He returned to Cambridge to do his PhD on the relationship between Kant and Phenomenology.

From 2009 to 2012 he was an Affiliated Lecturer in the Faculty of Philosophy at the University of Cambridge and a Junior Research Fellow at Peterhouse, Cambridge.