# Arguments for Liberty: Kantianism **URL:** **By** Grant Babcock, Jason Kuznicki, Aaron Ross Powell **Published:** January 6, 2017 --- Jason Kuznicki joins us to discuss the chapter he wrote on Immanuel Kant for our new book, Arguments for Liberty. Jason Kuznicki joins us to discuss his chapter on the philosophy of Immanuel Kant in our newest book, Arguments for Liberty. What’s Kant’s conception of the good, and what kind of government follows from that? Who was Immanuel Kant and what were his moral and political theories? What does Kant's categorical imperative tell us about how to live a good life? How do we get from the categorical imperative to a form of government? And why are some libertarians seemingly anti-Kant? **Show Notes and Further Reading** _Arguments for Liberty_ is [available here as a free .pdf and in Kindle and e-Book formats](https://www.libertarianism.org/books/arguments-liberty). It's also [available in paperback on Amazon](https://www.amazon.com/Arguments-Liberty-Aaron-Ross-Powell/dp/1944424121/). For those interested in reading more of Kant's work, Kuznicki recommends starting with Kant's [_Idea of a Universal History from a Cosmopolitical Point of View_](http://oll.libertyfund.org/titles/kant-kants-principles-of-politics-including-his-essay-on-perpetual-peace) , or Kant's[_ Critique of Practical Reason_](http://oll.libertyfund.org/titles/kant-kants-critique-of-practical-reason-and-other-works-on-the-theory-of-ethics--3) ; both are in the public domain and are available for free download from Liberty Fund.