Since Kant, if not before, British (and North American) and ‘Continental’ philosophers have usually taken different roads – and that despite the fact that Kant himself had and still has a massive influence north and west of the English Channel. In Britain, apart from Kantianism, we have seen the dominance of varying forms of utilitarianism from Bentham to Sidgwick to Moore and, in a striking contemporary version, to Parfit. On the Continent, we started with the various ‘Idealisms’ of Fichte and Hegel, then passed to Marx, then to post-Brentano phenomenology (in the first instance that of Husserl) and on to Heidegger, Sartre and other Existentialists and post-modernists.