Abstract Kant's 1765 lecture Announcement is a remarkable short document that, per page, amounts to one of the most revealing and pivotal of all his publications.1 Although it does not explicitly use the term “autonomy,” it is the first publication expressing Kant's decision to champion a Rousseauian philosophy of self-determination. The Announcement presents an intricately structured explanation of why the manner in which one teaches philosophy in the modern era is itself a central issue, one that calls for training in autonomy. In its concise form, it raises, but leaves unresolved, several fundamental issues in Kant's new doctrine of absolute freedom.
Karl Ameriks (Wed,) studied this question.