The New World Order and Kant’s Idea of Free Will - a podcast by Daniel Dal Monte

Kant tried to balance the strict lawfulness of nature with an absolute idea of human freedom. To accomplish this, Kant established the natural world as ideal, i.e. based on mental mediation in part. In ourselves, independent of any mental mediation, we can exercise an absolute freedom. But a will that is distinct from any causal structure seems free to invent itself without any constraint by the natural law. A will that is independent of any causal structure can make itself good without the grace of God. The independence of the Kantian agent seems to be the basis of the rebellion against nature characteristic of the New World Order.

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