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Why do right wing libertarians hate Immanuel Kant

I have seen many right wing libertarians (for example, Ayn Rand (Or at least more of her predecessors) and Stephen Hick) painting Kant as some type of anti reason, relativist, feudalist philosopher (with Hick going as far as to paint his philosophy in his book "Explaining Postmodernism" as a predecessor to postmodernism)

This is strange considering Kant was one of the most important philosophers of the enlightenment (a movement that many libertarians owe (or at least claim to owe) a lot from a political and philosophical preceptive.)

So, why is this?
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> why is this?

Rand seems particularly to take exception to Kant's position that we have responsibilities to other people, such that what is good is not reducible to what is in our self-interest.

> This is strange considering Kant was one of the most important philosophers of the enlightenment (a movement that many libertarians owe (or at least claim to owe) a lot from for a political and philosophical preceptive.

Significantly, Rand doesn't have significant debts nor commitments to characteristically Enlightenment-era thought, and it is characteristic of her thought even -- the present case is a prominent example -- to emphatically repudiate the former. So that the issue here is less that Rand dislikes Kant *in spite of* Kant's significant involvement in characteristically Enlightenment-era thought, with a more closer approximation being that she dislikes Kant *because of* Kant's significant involvement in characteristically Enlightenment-era thought.