Kant's Inaugural Dissertation of 1770 - Wikisource, the.
This critique led Kant to reject the solution of the Inaugural Dissertation, while still distinguishing between appearance and reality. Basing his theory on a distinction between noumena (things as they are in themselves) and phenomena (things as they appear to us), Kant argued that the mind knows a priori certain truths about the world because the mind is active in constructing that world.
Religion within the Boundaries of Mere Reason (Religion, hereafter) is a passionate statement of Kant's mature philosophy of religion. As the title suggests, Kant believes that religious experience is best understood through rationalism, an important philosophical movement in the 18th, 19th, and 20th centuries that argues we know some things intuitively, not through experience, and that we can.
Immanuel Kant is one of the most famous philosophers of the Enlightenment. He and David Hume represent the two great minds of the eighteenth century. He is well known for his ideal transcendentalism, a phenomenological philosophy that was considered by many to be a safe haven for religion from the fatal logical arrows of David Hume.
SCIENCE AND RELIGION — KANT, LAMBERT, LAPLACE, SIR WILLIAM HERSCHEL by Walter Libby THE PHILOSOPHY OF IMMANUEL KANT by A. D. Lindsay IMMANUEL KANT by Elbert Hubbard THE LAST DAYS OF IMMANUEL KANT by Thomas De Quincey AN OUTLINE OF THE HISTORY OF CHRISTIAN THOUGHT SINCE KANT by Edward Caldwell Moore KANT’S THEORY OF KNOWLEDGE by H. A. Prichard.
Soon after publishing his inaugural dissertation, Immanuel Kant underwent a change. From 1771 to 1781, he not only refrained from publishing any major work, but also kept totally aloof. His friends’ endeavors to drag him into social conversation and events met with polite refusal.
Immanuel's 59 research works with 1,983 citations and 465 reads, including: Ethical Philosophy: The Complete Texts of Grounding for the Metaphysics of Morals and Metaphysical Principles of Virtue.
In his Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals, Immanuel Kant portrays the supreme moral principle as an unconditional imperative that applies to all of us because we freely choose to impose upon ourselves a law of pure practical reason.