5/21/2023 0 Comments Immanuel kant philosophy![]() ![]() Kant’s aim was to move beyond the traditional dichotomy between rationalism and empiricism. ![]() This central idea became the basis for his life-long project of developing a critical philosophy that could withstand them. Long after his thorough indoctrination into the quasi-scholastic German appreciation of the metaphysical systems of Leibniz and Wolff, Kant said, it was a careful reading of David Hume that “interrupted my dogmatic slumbers and gave my investigations in the field of speculative philosophy a quite new direction.” Having appreciated the full force of such skepticalarguments, Kant supposed that the only adequate response would be a “Copernican Revolution” in philosophy, a recognition that the appearance of the external world depends in some measure upon the position and movement of its observers. ![]() Next we turn to the philosophy of Immanuel Kant, a watershed figure who forever altered the course of philosophical thinking in the Western tradition. ![]()
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