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
The possession of power unavoidably spoils the free use of reason
Reason does not work instinctively, but requires trial, practice, and instruction in order to gradually progress from one level of insight to another
The possession of power inevitably spoils the free use of reason.
Reason should investigate its own parameters before declaring its omniscience.
Reason can never prove the existence of God.
The only objects of practical reason are therefore those of good and evil. For by the former is meant an object necessarily desired according to a principle of reason; by the latter one necessarily shunned, also according to a principle of reason.
Beauty presents an indeterminate concept of Understanding, the sublime an indeterminate concept of Reason.
Nothing is divine but what is agreeable to reason.
Philosophical knowledge is the knowledge gained by reason from concepts ; mathematical knowledge is the knowledge gained by reason from the construction of concepts.
Man relates to material things through direct insight rather than reason.
All our knowledge begins with the senses,
There is nothing higher than reason.
Human reason is by nature architectonic.
It is never too late to become reasonable and wise.