Immanuel+Kant

media type="file" key="Immanuel Kant.mp3.mp3" His most important work is the Critique of Pure Reason, a critical investigation of reason itself. It encompasses an attack on traditional metaphysics and epistemology, and highlights Kant's own contribution to these areas. The other main works of his maturity are the Critique of Practical Reason, which concentrates on ethics, and the Critique of Judgement, which investigates aesthetics and teleology. Pursuing metaphysics involves asking questions about the ultimate nature of reality. Kant suggested that metaphysics can be reformed through epistemology[1]. He suggested that by understanding the sources and limits of human knowledge we can ask fruitful metaphysical questions. He asked if an object can be known to have certain properties prior to the experience of that object. He concluded that all objects that the mind can think about must conform to its manner of thought. Therefore if the mind can only think in terms of causality – which he concluded that it does – then we can know prior to experiencing them that all objects we experience must either be a cause or an effect. However, it follows from this that it is possible that there are objects of such a nature that the mind cannot think of them, and so the principle of causality, for instance, cannot be applied outside of experience: hence we cannot know, for example, whether the world always existed or if it had a cause. And so the grand questions of speculative metaphysics are off limits, but the sciences are firmly grounded in laws of the mind.[2] Kant showed great application to study early in his life. He was first sent to Collegium Fredericianum and then enrolled in the University of Königsberg in 1740, at the age of 16.[6] He studied the philosophy of Leibniz and Wolff under Martin Knutsen, He also dissuaded the young scholar from idealism, which was negatively regarded by most philosophers in the 18th century. The theory of transcendental idealism that Kant developed in the "Critique of Pure Reason" is not traditional idealism, i.e. the idea that reality is purely mental. Kant believed himself to be creating a compromise between the empiricists and the rationalists. The empiricists believed that knowledge is acquired through experience alone, but the rationalists maintained that such knowledge is open to Cartesian doubt and that reason alone provides us with knowledge. Kant argues, however, that using reason without applying it to experience will only lead to illusions, while experience will be purely subjective without first being subsumed under pure reason. In his essay "Answering the Question: What is Enlightenment?," Kant defined the Enlightenment as an age shaped by the Latin motto, //Sapere aude// ("Dare to Know"). Kant maintained that one ought to think autonomously, free of the dictates of external authority. His work reconciled many of the differences between the Rationalist and Empiricist traditions of the 18th century. He had a decisive impact on the Romantic and German Idealist philosophies of the 19th century. His work has also been a starting point for many 20th century philosophers The sense of an enlightened approach and the critical method required that "If one cannot prove that a thing //is,// he may try to prove that it is //not.// And if he succeeds in doing neither (as often occurs), he may still ask whether it is in his //interest// to //accept// one or the other of the alternatives hypothetically, from the theoretical or the practical point of view. Hence the question no longer is as to whether perpetual peace is a real thing or not a real thing, or as to whether we may not be deceiving ourselves when we adopt the former alternative, but we must //act// on the supposition of its being real."[19] The presupposition of God, soul, and freedom was then a practical concern, for "Morality, by itself, constitutes a system, but happiness does not, unless it is distributed in exact proportion to morality. This, however, is possible in an intelligible world only under a wise author and ruler. Reason compels us to admit such a ruler, together with life in such a world, which we must consider as future life, or else all moral laws are to be considered as idle dreams… ."[20] The two interconnected foundations of what Kant called his "critical philosophy" that created the "Copernican revolution" that he claimed to have wrought in philosophy were his epistemology of Transcendental Idealism and his moral philosophy of the autonomy of practical reason. These teachings placed the active, rational human subject at the center of the cognitive and moral worlds. With regard to knowledge, Kant argued that the rational order of the world as known by science could never be accounted for merely by the fortuitous accumulation of sense perceptions. It was instead the product of the rule-based activity of "synthesis." This activity consisted of conceptual unification and integration carried out by the mind through concepts or the "categories of the understanding" operating on the perceptual manifold within space and time, which are not concepts,[21] but are forms of sensibility that are a priori necessary conditions for any possible experience. Kant developed his moral philosophy in three works: //Groundwork of the Metaphysic of Morals// (1785),[28] //Critique of Practical Reason// (1788), and //Metaphysics of Morals// (1797). Kant is known for his theory that there is a single moral obligation, which he called the "Categorical Imperative", and is derived from the concept of **duty**. Kant defines the demands of the moral law as "categorical imperatives." Categorical imperatives are principles that are intrinsically valid; they are good in and of themselves; they must be obeyed in all situations and circumstances if our behavior is to observe the moral law. It is from the Categorical Imperative that all other moral obligations are generated, and by which all moral obligations can be tested. Kant also stated that the moral means and ends can be applied to the categorical imperative, that rational beings can pursue certain "ends" using the appropriate "means."Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life. ~ Immanuel Kant
 * Immanuel Kant** ( 22 April 1724 – 12 February 1804)was an 18th-century German philosopher from the Prussian city of Königsberg (now Kaliningrad, Russia). He is regarded as one of the most influential thinkers of modern Europe and of the late Enlightenment.

Script

"Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life" > a famous quote by the great Immanuel Kant. Kant was a great German philosophist that beleived that you need both reasons and experience to prove what you believe. Kant was born on April 22, 1724 and came from a city called Konigsberg which now part of Russia.As a child Kant grew up in strict, religious household that stressed the importance of God. Far as education, Kant favored religion and Latin. Kant first education first started at University of Konigsberg at the age of 16. There he learned the art of philosophy under Martin Knutson. Knutson himself was a rationalist or a person who proved things through reason. __**Young Scholar**__ Q: Hello Mr. Kant, you have been brought from the grave for 1 day to be interviewed, is that o.k A: Yes, I am willing and open to answer all questions you have for me Q: So lets get started Q: Can you tell me when were you born are you and where you came from? A: I was born April 22, 1724 and I came from a town call Konigsberg Q: What was it like growing up? A: Well me Dad was a craftsmen and me Mother was a housewife. I had 10 brothers and sisters but sadly most of them died. My parents was very strict on religion, that was the time I became very fond of the bible and the language Latin. Q: How was it like in school? A: Well probably would not believe me when I say I attended college at the age 16. I went to the University of Konigsberg and there I fell in love with expressment of your opinion and thus started my career in philosophy. Q: What did you do as a career? A: First I began to start my writing career and that started with my first published work, True Estimation of Living Forces. That led me to fame then I was a appointed as professor of Logic and Metaphysics at my school. Q: Can you briefly explain to me what was that work about? A: Yes its and its not complex at all. Say that I can fly, which is poposturous but how can you prove that I can. You need not only a reason but past experience and facts and that work of mine critized people on a certain topic and I proved to them you need more than just a reason. Q: What was your goal at that time? A: My main goal was to join to groups who had opposite views. One believed to prove a theory you need a reason and the other group you needed experience to prove a theory. And to tell I believed in both. Q: How many works did you complete and what was your most famous? A: I completed 32 of my works and me most famous was called the Critique of Pure Reason which took me 3 years to complete. Q: If you were to have any last words what would they be? A: My lasts words would be that to live your life as though your every act were to become a universal law. Q: Thank you for time Mr. Kant A: The pleasure was mine my gentlemen.
 * __Early Life__**
 * Born on April 22, 1724
 * Came from Konigsberg, Russia
 * Grew up in strict, religious houshold who stressed the importance of devotion to God
 * __Education__**
 * Attended the University of Konigsberg at the age of 16
 * favored religion and latin
 * learned philosophy and physics under Martin Knutson
 * 1749, Thoughts on the True Estimation of Living Forces was his first work published
 * 1770, was appointed as professor of Logis and Metaphysics
 * Correctly deduced that the Milky Way was a large cluster of stars
 * Figured out how images appear throught the cornea
 * __Philosophy__**