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Immanuel Kant

Immanuel Kant
The German philosopher ~ Immanuel Kant ~ one of the greatest philosopher of all times - argued that we gain knowledge through both experience and understanding

THE BUSINESS OF PHILOSOPHY IS NOT TO GIVE RULE, BUT TO ANALYZE THE PRIVATE JUDGEMENTS OF COMMON REASON ~ IMMANUEL KANT

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Until he (Kant) became elderly, Kant’s reputation was much like that of other first-rate academics, that is to say outstanding at the time but not built to last. However, at the age of 57, after a 10 year silence, he published one of the great books of all time, “Critique of Pure Reason (1781). There followed the ‘Critique of Practical Reason’ in 1788, and ‘Critique of Judgment’ in 1790. Meanwhile, in 1785, he brought out an unusually short book with an unusually long title, ‘The Fundamental Principles of the Metaphysics of Ethics,’ which has been influential ever since.. . . Page 132

All doctrines of Hinduism and Buddhism that have been cited here are among those which are central to those religions, and they also have obvious counterparts in Kantian-Schopenhauerian philosophy. The starting point of Kant’s assertion that these antinomies are insoluble by the use of reason alone. Both Kant and Schopenhauer regard the empirical world as something in which formation the experiencing subject is activ ely involved, and therefore as something that does not exist in that form at all independently of being experienced. Being so, it must, of its nature, be less permanent than us, or so both philosophers believed. ` Page 148

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THE UTILITARIANS

“Everybody to count for one, and nobody for more than one” and “The greatest good of the greatest number” are adopted as guiding principles

During the First half of the 19th century, philosophy in the English speaking world preceeded in almost complete ignorance of Kant. His masterpiece, ‘Critique of Pure Reason’ (1781) , was not even translated in to English until 1854, a full half-century after his death, and few educated English people, then as now, were able to read German. Consequently, little progress beyond Hume was made in metaphysics and theory of knowledge. The great advances came in moral and political philosophy. The application of these to public policy at a time when Britain governed something like a quarter of human race had world-wide impact. ~ Page 182
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