Immanuel Kant
Immanuel Kant
Immanuel Kantwas a German philosopher who is considered the central figure of modern philosophy. Kant argued that fundamental concepts of the human mind structure human experience, that reason is the source of morality, that aesthetics arises from a faculty of disinterested judgment, that space and time are forms of our sensibility, and that the world as it is "in-itself" is unknowable. Kant took himself to have effected a Copernican revolution in philosophy, akin to Copernicus' reversal of the age-old belief...
NationalityGerman
ProfessionPhilosopher
Date of Birth22 April 1724
CountryGermany
Art is purposiveness without purpose.
It is difficult for the isolated individual to work himself out of the immaturity which has become almost natural for him.
Ours is an age of criticism, to which everything must be subjected. The sacredness of religion, and the authority of legislation, are by many regarded as grounds for exemption from the examination by this tribunal, But, if they are exempted, and cannot lay claim to sincere respect, which reason accords only to that which has stood the test of a free and public examination.
It is by his activities and not by enjoyment that man feels he is alive. In idleness we not only feel that life is fleeting, but we also feel lifeless.
Do what is right, though the world may perish.
In law a man is guilty when he violates the rights of others. In ethics he is guilty if he only thinks of doing so.
Metaphysics is a dark ocean without shores or lighthouse, strewn with many a philosophic wreck.
Great minds think for themselves.
I had therefore to remove knowledge, in order to make room for belief.
Freedom is the alone unoriginated birthright of man, and belongs to him by force of his humanity; and is independence on the will and co-action of every other in so far as this consists with every other person's freedom.
There is a limit where the intellect fails and breaks down, and this limit is where the questions concerning God and freewill and immortality arise.
If justice perishes, human life on Earth has lost its meaning.
***Three Conditions of Happiness*** If you have work to do If you have someone you love If You have hope Then You are Happy now!
If education is to develop human nature so that it may attain the object of its being, it must involve the exercise of judgment.