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and was he wrong about any of them?

2007-03-24 08:59:23 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities Philosophy

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Kant was a college professor and content with that position until Hume awakened him with his "proofs" that there is no source of ethics/morality and than Man could do what he felt was best for him.

This cause Kant to start thinking about a source for ethics and the best that he could come up with was there are just things that we should do because we ought to do so (for instance, we should care for our parents when they get old without regard to inheritance). He also believed that the way of doing things was totally more important that the end.

These two things are for the most part of what he wrote about (and much of his writing is extremely hard to read and understand).

When all is said and done, even though many hold him in hign esteem, there is little of substance in his philosophy and ideas.

2007-03-24 13:29:14 · answer #1 · answered by scotishbob 5 · 0 0

Kant was one of those heavy German philosophers, like their heavy composers and heavy politicians, and unfortunately a great many of his ideas now seem like he fell of the deep end on them. His view can ever so often be pessimistic and negative and he tends to reach for things that are just slightly out of his grasp. If he were alive and active today, he would have definitely been a different sort of a writer, but he, as all of the rest of us, was a product of his times and his nation.

2007-03-24 11:13:48 · answer #2 · answered by John B 7 · 0 0

Not much....

Most likely, many of them.

2007-03-27 19:44:16 · answer #3 · answered by Izen G 5 · 0 0

Yes ! he was not right with most of his theories

2007-03-24 09:03:09 · answer #4 · answered by cabridog 4 · 0 0

you know sth, his philosophy is too hard to understand.

2007-03-24 11:25:33 · answer #5 · answered by sabrine 2 · 0 0

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