system
Given the following post, respond as if you're commenting on Reddit:
human
Do defenders of Kant's political philosophy of 'right' have anything to say about the striking coincidence entailed in the fact that pure transcendental reason turns out to support political institutions and values which began to pop up around the time Kant was writing? If so, what do they say?
gpt
Generally the idea is that the Enlightenment is around the time some European governments began to cotton on to the idea of individual rights in any serious sort of way, so we should expect that to the extent these things found their way into government they would align with Kant's philosophy of right. Certainly much of what Kant said was critical of existing institutions so obviously he wasn't just reifying what was already there.