Immanuel_Kant

Immanuel Kant Kant and the Theory of Human Knowledge Immanuel Kant (1724-1804) is generally recognized as the greatest philosopher since Plato and Aristotle. During this period philosophers sought to apply the methods of science to the study of human beings. He was influenced greatly by the ethical and social thought of Rousseau. Kant repeatedly expressed his faith in the free democratic use of reason to examine everything, however traditional, authoritative, or sacred. Kant and his philosophy was influenced by both Christianity and science and in seeing the most fundamental problems of philosophy in how to combine the two. Kant views God as omniscient, omnipotent, and benevolent; and immortal human soul; and human free-will. Kant is also equally influenced by science. One fundamental objective of his philosophy was to explain how scientific knowledge is possible. Kant developed a systematic theory of knowledge and human cognitive faculties to show how both the empirical methods of physical science and the method of proof in mathematics depend on a priori presuppositions. He claimed that these cannot themselves be proved by logical truths. Such principles, can, however, be seen by philosophical reflection, specifically by “transcendental arguments,” to be necessary conditions of any empirical experience of kant, Immanuel, world, knowledge, human, species, science, theory, reason, own, one, must, man’s, empirical, society, scientific, philosophy, perception, out, make, know, judgments, influenced, events, character, being, views, two, thought, taken, systematic, system, seen, rational, progress, priori