CATO & Kant: More proof Libertarian and Austrian Economics are Intellectually Bankrupt
"irst, I will explain that the portrayal of Kant’s ethics as cold and rigid is a caricature (much though not all of it due to Ayn Rand), when in fact they represent a commonsense morality, grounded in the dignity of the individual, with a surprising degree of flexibility.
Classical liberalism was fundamentally about reason, not ethics or politics. Kant divides the world in two, noumenal and phenomenal, which is just warmed over Plato and then he says reason cannot penetrate the more important real world, which is a small variation on Plato.