Immanuel Kant
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Immanuel Kant (22 April 1724 – 12 February 1804) was a German philosopher and one of the central Enlightenment thinkers. Born in Königsberg, Kant's comprehensive and systematic works in epistemology, metaphysics, ethics, and aesthetics have made him one of the most influential figures in modern Western philosophy. In his doctrine of transcendental idealism, Kant argued space and time are mere "forms of intuition" that structure all experience and that the objects of experience are mere "appearances". The nature of things as they are in themselves is unknowable to us. In an attempt to counter the philosophical doctrine of skepticism, he wrote the Critique of Pure Reason (1781/1787), his most well-known work. Kant drew a parallel to the Copernican revolution in his proposal to think of the objects of experience as conforming to our spatial and temporal forms of intuition and the categories of our understanding, so that we have a priori cognition of those objects. Kant believed that reason is the source of morality, and that aesthetics arises from a faculty of disinterested judgment. Kant's religious views were deeply connected to his moral theory. Their exact nature, however, remains in dispute. He hoped that perpetual peace could be secured through an international federation of republican states and international cooperation. His cosmopolitan reputation, however, is called into question by his promulgation of scientific racism for much of his career, although he altered his views on the subject in the last decade of his life. Source: Wikipedia (en)
Authors influenced by Immanuel Kant 76
- Dieter Henrich
- Hermann Weyl
- Éric Weil
- Markus Herz
- Hans-Georg Gadamer
- Hans Vaihinger
- Rudolf Carnap
- Johann Friedrich Herbart
- Hans-Hermann Hoppe
- Hermann Cohen
- Gustav Fechner
- Friedrich von Gentz
- Hugo Bergmann
- Martin Buber
- Nachman Krochmal
- Johann Gottlieb Fichte
- Michel Houellebecq
- Jean-Baptiste Girard
- Jean Piaget
- Johann Gottfried Herder
- Luitzen Egbertus Jan Brouwer
- Leszek Kołakowski
- Raymond Aron
- Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi
- John Rawls
- Gilles Deleuze
- Nikolai Berdyaev
- Slavoj Žižek
- Mikhail Bakhtin
- Yeshayahu Leibowitz
- Alain
- Donald Davidson
- Lucien Lévy-Bruhl
- Roger Scruton
- Salomon Maimon
- Merab Mamardashvili
- Valentin Ferdinandovich Asmus
- Harry Frankfurt
- Nikolai Stankevich
- Aleksei Losev
- Evald Ilyenkov
- Felix Adler
- Gabriel Jean Edmond Séailles
- Ferdinand Alquié
- Monroe Beardsley
Works about Immanuel Kant 7
- Introduction to Kant's Anthropology
- La Philosophie critique de Kant
- Kant and the Problem of Metaphysics
- Lessons on the Analytic of the Sublime
- Letters to Sergio Solmi on the philosophy of Kant
- Kants System der transzendentalen Ideen
- The Normative Grounds of Social Criticism: Kant, Rawls, and Habermas
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