Name: Uncovering Kant's Unexpected Philosophy.
Uploaded: 2023-01-26T19:45:00+00:00
Duration: 3 min 35 s
Description: Immanuel Kant (1724-1804) is one of the most influential philosophers in the history of Western philosophy. His contributions to metaphysics, epistemology, ethics, and aesthetics have had a profound i

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Immanuel Kant (1724-1804) is one of the most influential philosophers in the history of Western philosophy. His contributions to metaphysics, epistemology, ethics, and aesthetics have had a profound impact on almost every philosophical movement that followed him.

At the foundation of Kant's system is the doctrine of “transcendental idealism,” which emphasizes a distinction between what we can experience (the natural, observable world) and what we cannot (“supersensible” objects such as God and the soul). Kant argued that we can only have knowledge of things we can experience.

Kant's most famous work, the Critique of Pure Reason, was published in 1781 and revised in 1787. It is a treatise which seeks to show the impossibility of one sort of metaphysics and to lay the foundations for another. His other books included the Critique of Practical Reason (1788) and the Critique of Judgment (1790).