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Portrait of Matthias Rothe.

The Politics of Kant’s Failures

Philosopher Immanuel Kant’s work delves deep into the concept of freedom in both his moral and political philosophies—so what does a Kant scholar do when these treatments of freedom don’t quite seem to line up? Professor Matthias Rothe explains how inconsistencies in Kant’s work must be understood in a broader historical, social, and political context.
Portrait of Lily Obeda.

Choose Your Own Adventure

“Once you find your passion and the piece of you that clicks, everything else falls into place.” That’s the advice of 2018 graduate Lily Obeda, whose double major in GSD with a Scandinavian & Finnish emphasis and speech-language-hearing sciences has prepared her for an exciting career in academia.
Male student with European town in winter in background

Finding his roots: A scholarship student explores his German heritage

Philosophy major Jordan Kleist, ’19, is learning abroad in Austria thanks to the Frank D. Hirschbach Study Abroad Scholarship. Kleist is there to connect with his heritage and deepen his understanding of German philosophers through language study. “To really understand how those philosophers viewed the world and conceived their ideas, I will need to study them in their original language,” he says.