22 April 2024 will mark the three hundredth anniversary of the birth of Immanuel Kant in Königsberg, East Prussia (now Kaliningrad, Russia). My New Year’s resolution is to finish a play that I have been planning for the last few years that involves a fictional young Kant visiting Uppsala, Sweden, shortly after the devastating 1755 Lisbon earthquake, an event that caused the intellectuals of Europe to question the nature of divine justice and the meaning of human life. … [please read belo...
