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Reconciling rationalism and empiricism

Immanuel Kant was a rational philosopher. He claimed that, after reading David Hume (who wrote about reason and cause) and realizing that science was growing, he had awakened from the ‘dogmatic slumbers’ of rationalism. He wanted to reconcile the apparent opposition...

Phenomenon and noumenon

In his work, The Critique of Pure Reason, Kant distinguished between the noumenal world and the phenomenal world. He argued that the physical world is experienced through our senses and that our sensations give us knowledge of objects. However, he explained that the...

The categorical imperative

Immanuel Kant developed his ideas of transcendental idealism into a comprehensive system of thought that included epistemology (the study of knowledge), metaphysics (the nature of reality), and ethics (moral philosophy). He saw his moral philosophy as a response to...

Morality is reality

Kant’s idealism was developed further by Johann Gottlieb Fichte. He admired Kant, yet dismissed the concept of noumenon or the thing-in-itself, and instead proposed a system of absolute idealism. Based on the theory of phenomenon and noumenon, Fichte argued that if we...

Idealism and nature

German romanticism was born out of the belief that all natural processes were divinely inspired, and therefore should be treated with reverence and awe. Their focus was on nature, and what we could learn about ourselves through observation of nature. The idea of...



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