The Chancellor gives a speech in praise of the philosopher, but he is actually talking about the Kremlin boss. He criticizes his desire for destruction and Moscow’s attempts to take the thinker for itself.
300 years ago this Monday, Immanuel Kant, the philosopher from Königsberg, was born, and everyone wants to take him for their own. In his hometown, now Kaliningrad in Russia, Kant chocolate and Kant mulled wine are sold, and politicians also like to adorn themselves with him: Russian President Vladimir Putin is said to have described Kant as one of his favorite philosophers and ordered extensive celebrations for his 300th birthday.