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Introduction:
IMMANUEL KANT by Robert Adamson
KANT'S INAUGURAL DISSERTATION OF 1770
Three Critiques:
THE CRITIQUE OF PURE REASON
THE CRITIQUE OF PRACTICAL REASON
THE CRITIQUE OF JUDGMENT
Critical Works:
PRELOGOMENA TO ANY FUTURE METAPHYSICS
FUNDAMENTAL PRINCIPLES OF THE METAPHYSIC OF MORALS
THE METAPHYSICS OF MORALS
Philosophy of Law; or, The Science of Right
The Metaphysical Elements of Ethics
Pre-Critical Works and Essays:
DREAMS OF A SPIRIT-SEER
IDEA OF A UNIVERSAL HISTORY ON A COSMOPOLITICAL PLAN
Preface to THE METAPHYSICAL FOUNDATIONS OF NATURAL SCIENCE
PERPETUAL PEACE: A Philosophical Essay
OF THE INJUSTICE OF COUNTERFEITING BOOKS
Criticism:
CRITICISM OF THE KANTIAN PHILOSOPHY by Arthur Schopenhauer
Immanuel Kant (1724-1804) was a German philosopher, who, according to the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy is "the central figure of modern philosophy." Kant argued that fundamental concepts of the human mind structure human experience, that reason is the source of morality, that aesthetics arises from a faculty of disinterested judgment, that space and time are forms of our understanding, and that the world as it is "in-itself" is unknowable. Kant took himself to have effected a Copernican revolution in philosophy, akin to Copernicus' reversal of the age-old belief that the sun revolved around the earth.
Table of Contents:
Introduction:
IMMANUEL KANT by Robert Adamson
KANT'S INAUGURAL DISSERTATION OF 1770
Three Critiques:
THE CRITIQUE OF PURE REASON
THE CRITIQUE OF PRACTICAL REASON
THE CRITIQUE OF JUDGMENT
Critical Works:
PRELOGOMENA TO ANY FUTURE METAPHYSICS
FUNDAMENTAL PRINCIPLES OF THE METAPHYSIC OF MORALS
THE METAPHYSICS OF MORALS
Philosophy of Law; or, The Science of Right
The Metaphysical Elements of Ethics
Pre-Critical Works and Essays:
DREAMS OF A SPIRIT-SEER
IDEA OF A UNIVERSAL HISTORY ON A COSMOPOLITICAL PLAN
Preface to THE METAPHYSICAL FOUNDATIONS OF NATURAL SCIENCE
PERPETUAL PEACE: A Philosophical Essay
OF THE INJUSTICE OF COUNTERFEITING BOOKS
Criticism:
CRITICISM OF THE KANTIAN PHILOSOPHY by Arthur Schopenhauer
Immanuel Kant (1724-1804) was a German philosopher, who, according to the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy is "the central figure of modern philosophy." Kant argued that fundamental concepts of the human mind structure human experience, that reason is the source of morality, that aesthetics arises from a faculty of disinterested judgment, that space and time are forms of our understanding, and that the world as it is "in-itself" is unknowable. Kant took himself to have effected a Copernican revolution in philosophy, akin to Copernicus' reversal of the age-old belief that the sun revolved around the earth.
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Immanuel Kant
3,122 books4,462 followersImmanuel Kant was an 18th-century philosopher from Königsberg, Prussia (now Kaliningrad, Russia). He's regarded as one of the most influential thinkers of modern Europe & of the late Enlightenment. His most important work is The Critique of Pure Reason, an investigation of reason itself. It encompasses an attack on traditional metaphysics & epistemology, & highlights his own contribution to these areas. Other main works of his maturity are The Critique of Practical Reason, which is about ethics, & The Critique of Judgment, about esthetics & teleology.
Pursuing metaphysics involves asking questions about the ultimate nature of reality. Kant suggested that metaphysics can be reformed thru epistemology. He suggested that by understanding the sources & limits of human knowledge we can ask fruitful metaphysical questions. He asked if an object can be known to have certain properties prior to the experience of that object. He concluded that all objects that the mind can think about must conform to its manner of thought. Therefore if the mind can think only in terms of causality–which he concluded that it does–then we can know prior to experiencing them that all objects we experience must either be a cause or an effect. However, it follows from this that it's possible that there are objects of such a nature that the mind cannot think of them, & so the principle of causality, for instance, cannot be applied outside experience: hence we cannot know, for example, whether the world always existed or if it had a cause. So the grand questions of speculative metaphysics are off limits, but the sciences are firmly grounded in laws of the mind. Kant believed himself to be creating a compromise between the empiricists & the rationalists. The empiricists believed that knowledge is acquired thru experience alone, but the rationalists maintained that such knowledge is open to Cartesian doubt and that reason alone provides us with knowledge. Kant argues, however, that using reason without applying it to experience will only lead to illusions, while experience will be purely subjective without first being subsumed under pure reason. Kant’s thought was very influential in Germany during his lifetime, moving philosophy beyond the debate between the rationalists & empiricists. The philosophers Fichte, Schelling, Hegel and Schopenhauer saw themselves as correcting and expanding Kant's system, thus bringing about various forms of German Idealism. Kant continues to be a major influence on philosophy to this day, influencing both Analytic and Continental philosophy.
Pursuing metaphysics involves asking questions about the ultimate nature of reality. Kant suggested that metaphysics can be reformed thru epistemology. He suggested that by understanding the sources & limits of human knowledge we can ask fruitful metaphysical questions. He asked if an object can be known to have certain properties prior to the experience of that object. He concluded that all objects that the mind can think about must conform to its manner of thought. Therefore if the mind can think only in terms of causality–which he concluded that it does–then we can know prior to experiencing them that all objects we experience must either be a cause or an effect. However, it follows from this that it's possible that there are objects of such a nature that the mind cannot think of them, & so the principle of causality, for instance, cannot be applied outside experience: hence we cannot know, for example, whether the world always existed or if it had a cause. So the grand questions of speculative metaphysics are off limits, but the sciences are firmly grounded in laws of the mind. Kant believed himself to be creating a compromise between the empiricists & the rationalists. The empiricists believed that knowledge is acquired thru experience alone, but the rationalists maintained that such knowledge is open to Cartesian doubt and that reason alone provides us with knowledge. Kant argues, however, that using reason without applying it to experience will only lead to illusions, while experience will be purely subjective without first being subsumed under pure reason. Kant’s thought was very influential in Germany during his lifetime, moving philosophy beyond the debate between the rationalists & empiricists. The philosophers Fichte, Schelling, Hegel and Schopenhauer saw themselves as correcting and expanding Kant's system, thus bringing about various forms of German Idealism. Kant continues to be a major influence on philosophy to this day, influencing both Analytic and Continental philosophy.
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