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Immanuel Kant

Immanuel Kant. By: Lowell Ringel. Background. Born in 1724 in Königsburg, East Prussia (modern day Kaliningrad, Russia) Was a longtime professor at the University of Königsburg

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Immanuel Kant

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  1. Immanuel Kant By: Lowell Ringel

  2. Background • Born in 1724 in Königsburg, East Prussia (modern day Kaliningrad, Russia) • Was a longtime professor at the University of Königsburg • Because of his rationalist approach to interpreting religious texts, the King of Prussia banned him from writing and lecturing about these in 1792. “The only thing good without qualification is a good will.” - Immanuel Kant

  3. Background continued… • Kant obeyed until the king’s death in 1797. He then resumed work, publishing a summary of his religious views. • He passed away in 1804. Important Works: "Honesty is better than any policy.“ - Immanuel Kant • The Three Critiques: • The Critique of Pure Reason (1781, 2nd edition published 1787) • The Critique of Practical Reason (1788) • The Critique of the Power of Judgment (1790)

  4. Influences • Gottfried Leibnez • Christian Wolff • David Hume

  5. Overview of Kant’s philosophical views • Believed that human knowledge and reason is the basis for all beliefs and morality. • Believed all knowledge starts from experience but can branch off from there. • Knowledge comes from the senses and mind working together. • Believed the independence of the will of man is the source of human dignity. • Believed (STRONGLY) that humans are God’s end (final product) An original German copy of The Critique Of Pure Reason

  6. Continued… • - He believes that it is morally necessary to believe in the immortality of the soul and the existence of God, which he calls postulates (basically obvious truths) of pure practical reason. • - Believed in transcendental idealism, or the idea that human beings experience only appearances, not the things themselves. According to Kant, you had to believe.

  7. Works Cited • "Immanuel Kant." Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (2010): Web. 10 Feb 2011. http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/kant/ . • “Kant's Aesthetics and Teleology.” Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (2010): Web. 15 Feb 2011. http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/kant-aesthetics/ . • “Immanuel Kant - Biography." The European Graduate School . Web. 10 Feb 2011. http://www.egs.edu/library/immanuel-kant/biography/ .

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