Kant_And_Freedom

Kant And Freedom Critically discuss Kant’s understanding of freedom. ‘The concept of freedom is the stone of stumbling for all empiricists, but at the same time the key to the loftiest practical principles for critical moralists, who perceive by its means that they must necessarily proceed by a rational method.’ ---- Kant, Critique of Practical Reason, Preface Immanuel Kant was born in 1724 in Konigsberg, Germany. He is undeniably one of the most influential philosophers in the realm of moral and political thinking. Kant learned his philosophy in the German university system, which was dominated by the thought of Christian Wolff, himself a follower of Leibniz and the empiricism of David Hume. His greatest work ‘‘Critique of Pure Reason”’ is a synthesis of rationalism and empiricisnm both of which in themselves , he believed , gave a one sided view of knowledge. However, his writings was not on one sided subject, from science to mathematics to philosophy and politics. One of his work ‘Metaphysical Ground…’ Kant claims the commitment of categorical imperative is objective. The idea of freedom is not only demanded by a sense of duty , but it also compatrible with the law of casuality. . Man as a phenomenal being is freedom, kant, law, free, nature, determined, ourselves, moral, actions, understanding, think, things, subject, pure, one, mechanically, know, kant’s, experience, appearances, ‘critique, things-in-themselves, themselves, reason’, reason, must, laws, idea, empirical, effect, discuss, critically, cause, cannot, being