Born on April 22, 1724 in the town of Königsberg, East Prussia, Immanuel Kant was the fourth child of nine children to a harness maker, Johann Georg and his wife Anna Regina Kant. This German philosopher’s major works offer an analysis of theoretical and moral reason and the ability of human judgement as well as having a great influence on the intellectual movements of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. During his childhood days, Kant spent his elementary schooldays Saint George’s Hospital School followed by the Collegium Fredericianum, a Pietist school, where he gained a deep appreciation for the classics of Latin literature, especially the poet Lucretius.
In modern philosophy, Kant is the central figure who synthesized early modern rationalism and empiricism. Other than that, he is also the one who set the terms for much of nineteenth and twentieth century philosophy, and continues to exercise a significant influence in today’s metaphysics, epistemology, ethics, …show more content…
While Critique of the Power of Judgement make an attempts at bridging the two conflicting ideas in the first two Critiques together by connecting the concept of nature in the first critique with the concepts of freedom in the second critique and show the people the power of human judgements. Thus, from this relationship that has been establish by Kant himself, we have the philosophy of Kant’s Universal Moment in film studies that relate the freedom inside human beings in making decision to the universal nature of the world. But then, it is always thought that humans are greater than nature and that we hold power over them. (Advameg,