WebbSummary. Immanuel Kant (1724–1804) is the most influential thinker in modern western philosophy. The central doctrine of Kant’s theoretical philosophy is what he calls “transcendental idealism.”. This is, roughly, the view that there is a sharp distinction between things as they appear to us and things as they really are (in themselves).

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Immanuel Kant was born on 22 April 1724 into a Prussian German family of Lutheran Protestant faith in Königsberg, East Prussia (since 1946 the Russian city of Kaliningrad). His mother, Anna Regina Reuter (1697–1737), was born in Königsberg to a father from Nuremberg. Her surname is sometimes erroneously given as Porter. Kant's father, Johann Georg Kant (1682–1746), was a German … WebbIt becomes the philosopher’s task to discern a rational pattern in history that may not be evident to the historical agents themselves: “The only way out for the philosopher, since he cannot assume that mankind follows any rational purpose of its own in its collective actions, is for him to attempt to discover a purpose in nature behind this senseless … WebbImmanuel Kant was one of the foremost thinkers of the Enlightenment and arguably one of the greatest philosophers of all time. In him were subsumed new trends that had begun … the pines rv resort mt vernon tx