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I am so interested of his philosophy...your knowledge will be greatly appreciated.

2007-03-04 23:16:23 · 5 answers · asked by wonderer 1 in Arts & Humanities Philosophy

5 answers

It would be your DUTY to research this on your own.

for a starting point, Look Here:
http://www.friesian.com/kant.htm

2007-03-04 23:25:07 · answer #1 · answered by me 7 · 0 0

Immanuel Kant? Yes, he is sitting next to Plato for me. It was him who drew the many strands of thoughts together into a system which has proved to be one of the most important accomplishments in the history of human.

I will talk to you about his transcendent principle using the soul as example..Kant held that understanding cannot know anything but that which is experienced. However,reason can go beyond this, and conceive of a world of which we can have no actual experience, thus, it transcends, rises above experience, and gives us the transcendent principles.

Reason gives man an idea of soul as the summation of all mental processes. Althpough we can never experience the soul, at some points, the idea of the soul has a value therefore it is legitimate for us to think of it

2007-03-05 07:38:44 · answer #2 · answered by oscar c 5 · 0 0

Kant was an original thinker that shook the classical world of philosophy. He baffles seekers even today. My favorite nugget that I'm able to digest from his works goes something like this: "Time, History and Religion are all of human construct and when the mind that conceived these concepts is no longer working, these three things don't matter."

2007-03-05 07:30:01 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1 0

Not much;

but even reading an answer or two here,id be inclined to say
that you ought to go carefully,very carefully.
And it may be a
idea to read Popper's take on this philosophy,if you have not
already done so; And dont forget his very wise words-try and try
again not to fall into the trap of inane and unwise complexities,
most of these are worthless and the still current pages that are
still turned-out would be much better left as the trees they came
from.

2007-03-05 08:39:59 · answer #4 · answered by peter m 6 · 0 0

Yes he is for me too one of the greatest, but I had a hard time to understand it and to become familiar with it. I guess you need to do it by yourself. Some quotes are:
Copernican revolution
transcendental idealism
analytic-synthetic
a priori/a posteriori
category
ding an sich
categorical imperative
transcendental idealism means that for him the world is objectively real only restrained to experience, while beyond that line is "transcendental", given only in mind. Experience is united sensuality and reason, that include given, a priori forms: space, time, causality, substantially, and other categories which help them to manage with chaos of impressions in our consciousness that are made by outside, objective world - ding ans sich. Outside of these forms world can't be found out, and we can't know anything about it. Metaphysics as science about world outside of experience border is impossible (e.g. existence of God) but man as a bearer of moral law - categorical imperative is has a possibility to recognize these questions because this law affirms his appurtenance to higher, "noumenal" world.
Sorry for my english, I really try to make this explanation easy but I am not sure will you understand, it's always hard for me write about philosophy in english.

2007-03-05 08:33:52 · answer #5 · answered by Jelena L. 4 · 0 0

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