Kant

Kant starts off making two distinctions regarding kinds of knowledge, empirical/rational and formal/material. Empirical or experience-based knowledge is contrasted with rational knowledge, which is independent of experience. This distinction between empirical and rational knowledge rests on a difference in sources of evidence used to support the two different kinds of knowledge. Formal is contrasted with…

Kant: GoodnessThe philosopher I used is Immanuel Kant. He was very practical in histhinking of goodness. A quote of his was “I ought, therefore I can”. His viewwas good anything is under good will . He believed good will was the primarygoodness, good in its purest form, and that it couldn’t be corrupted. Goodfeelings and…

Immanuel Kant was born in 1724 in the East Prussian town of Konigsberg and lived there practically all his life. He came from a deeply pious Lutheran family, and his own religious convictions formed a significant background to his philosophy. Like Berkeley, he felt it was essential to preserve the foundations of Christian belief. Kant…

Hume vs. KantMany different philosophers have their own way of looking at not only the world, but society as a whole. This is clearly seen with the two philosopher’s Kant and Hume. Though totally different styles of philosophizing and looking at an ethical theory, it is not to say that one’s theory is better or…