GERMANY IDEALISM AND IMMANUEL KANT (Essay Sample)

Name: Tutor: Course Number: Date: GERMANY IDEALISM AND IMMANUEL KANT Immanuel Kant is a globally celebrated German philosopher for his outstanding work in epistemology, aesthetics, and ethics which significantly influenced the succeeding philosophy in schools of idealism and Kantianism. He was among the notable thinkers of all age in enlightenment and the greatest among all philosophers. New trends were incorporated through him that had initialized with rationalism insisting on reason while empiricism emphasized on the experience of Francis Bacon He thus instated a new epoch in developing a philosophical mindset. Immanuel Kant was born on April 22, 1724, at Konigsberg in Germany. He resided in that secluded province throughout his life. His father was of Scottish origin and his mother an illiterate German though outstanding for her personality and natural aptitude. Both parents were staunch followers of the Pietist branch of the Lutheran church. The pastor's influence made Kant the only one in the family of nine to acquire education. At eight years, he joined the Pietist according to the pastor's instructions and there obtained his great love for Latin classics. He joined the university of Konigsberg in 1740 and was highly interested in Mathematics and Physics. He is known to be the most influential philosophers in Western philosophy. He played a substantial role in metaphysics, ethics, and epistemology which have immensely impacted nearly every philosophical undertaking after him. The article: The Critique of Pure Reason, which emphases on epistemology and metaphysics, is one of his most important works. A huge portion of his work focuses on the question of what we can know? Later on, it is answered that: our understanding is restricted to mathematics and science relating to the natural, experiential world. He argues therefore that it is impossible to encompass information to the supersensible jurisdiction of speculative metaphysics. The explanation to why knowledge has its restrictions is that the mind institutes the features of experience and constrains the access of the mind only to the experimental territory of space and time (Kant et al., 178). Kant reacted to his predecessors by disagreeing with the Empiricists that the brain is an empty slate written upon by the experiential world and through declining the Rationalists believe that untainted, a priori knowledge of a mind- sovereign realm was probable. The purpose is defined by experiences and categories giving a remarkable and rational structure to any object of possible experience (Kant 134). These groupings cannot be avoided to reach a mind sovereign world rather it is vital for experience in Spatial-temporal objects along with their logical features and causal trend. The two theses are the basis of Kant’s renowned inspiring idealism and pragmatic ...