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July 1, 2012 - Kant's Philosophy... and the study of Kantianism on HP etc...
17.10.2013 - Interpretation of dali48
Not to be good, but the shall-being-good was Kant's issue - He explored the human reason to determine whether it has a principle by nature which makes morality possible - He considered that neither the character nor the ability or favorable life circumstances of a person secured the goodness - but only the will - The only good with man is his good will. Do the people want to get along well with each other, they must follow this good... - and indeed, as if it was not only a motivation, but an unalterable law - This call to basic goodness Kant called the categorical (basic) imperative (call)... (R. D. Precht)
Interpretation of dali48
Immanuel Kant (1724 – 1804) was a German philosopher from Königsberg (today Kaliningrad of Russia), who researched, lectured, and wrote on philosophy and anthropology during the Enlightenment at the end of the 18th century...
Kant's major work, the Critique of Pure Reason (Kritik der reinen Vernunft, 1781), aimed to unite reason with experience - to move beyond what he took to be failures of traditional philosophy and metaphysics - He hoped to end an age of speculation - where objects outside experience were used to support what he saw as futile theories, while opposing the skepticism of thinkers such as Berkeley and Hume...
He stated: "It always remains a scandal of philosophy and universal human reason that the existence of things outside us... - should have to be assumed merely on faith - and that if it occurs to anyone to doubt it, we should be unable to answer him with a satisfactory proof"...
His ideas influenced many thinkers in Germany during his lifetime - He settled and moved philosophy beyond the debate between the rationalists and empiricists - The philosophers Fichte, Schelling, Hegel and Schopenhauer amended and developed the Kantian system...
With his Perpetual Peace, Kant is considered to have foreshadowed many of the ideas that have come to form the democratic peace theory - one of the main controversies in political science...
In 2005, that Russian-speaking university was renamed Immanuel Kant State University of Russia in honour of Kant... (Wikipedia)
Immanuel Kant was an influential German philosopher. In his doctrine of transcendental ...... In this sense an agnostic appeals to Immanuel Kant (1724– 1804), who claims in his Critique of Pure Reason that since God, freedom, immortality, and ...
Died: 12 February 1804 (aged 79); Königsberg, ...
Notable students: Jakob Sigismund Beck, Joh...
Born: 22 April 1724; Königsberg, Prussia
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