Immanuel+Kant

||<  || Immanuel Kant is the central figure in modern philosophy. He synthesized early modern rationalism and empiricism, set the terms for much of nineteenth and twentieth century philosophy, and continues to exercise a significant influence today in metaphysics, epistemology, ethics, political philosophy, aesthetics, and other fields. The fundamental idea of Kant's “critical philosophy” — especially in his three Critiques: the Critique of Pure Reason (1781, 1787), the Critique of Practical Reason (1788), and the Critique of the Power of Judgment (1790) — is human autonomy. He argues that the human understanding is the source of the general laws of nature that structure all our experience; and that human reason gives itself the moral law, which is our basis for belief in God, freedom, and immortality. Therefore, scientific knowledge, morality, and religious belief are mutually consistent and secure because they all rest on the same foundation of human autonomy, which is also the final end of nature according to the teleological worldview of reflecting judgment that Kant introduces to unify the theoretical and practical parts of his philosophical system. ||<  || (1724–1804) ||<   || Kant defines his theory of perception in his influential 1781 work //[|The Critique of Pure Reason]//, which has often been cited as the most significant volume of metaphysics and [|epistemology] in modern philosophy. Kant maintains that our understanding of the external world had its foundations not merely in experience, but in both experience and [|a priori] [|concepts], thus offering a **non-empiricist critique of rationalist philosophy**, which is what he and others referred to as his "[|Copernican revolution]" ||<  || __**[|Prolegomena]**__ __**[|What Is Enlightenment?]**__ __**[|Groundwork of the]**____**[|Metaphysic of Morals]**__ __**[|Critique of Practical Reason]**__ __**[|Critique of Judgement]**__ __**[|Religion within the]**____**[|Bounds of Bare Reason]**__ __**[|Metaphysics of Morals]**__ ||<  ||
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 * **Immanuel Kant**
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 * [|The Critique of Pure Reason]**

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