Immanuel Kant: A German Philosopher

Immanuel Kant is a German philosopher who played a big part in the knowledge of theory, ethics and the beauty and nature in life. He was born in Königsberg, east Prussia. Which is now a part of Russia, but back then was known as a part of Germany. Immanuel was a huge influence on all aspects of philosophy especially the different schooling of Kantianism and Idealism. Kantianism is the rightness or wrongness of actions that does not depend on the consequences of those actions, but on if they will fulfill our duties. Idealism is more-or-less the ideas that we hold to be true in our own minds; our interpretations of our experiences. Immanuel Kant was one of the greatest philosophers of all time and had started new trends in ethics and philosophy …show more content…
Which in the United States would be known as a private tutor at a university. He was given the title of ‘chair of logic and metaphysics’ and he had remained in that position for a few years until his death on February 12, 1804. His beliefs and theories are ones we use daily. To put into perspective on what Immanuel Kant was saying would be for instance, “I will not stab my neighbor for stealing money because I will feel remorse and awful for doing an act like that.” His theories are saying that you won’t commit an act because you will feel mentally bad about it rather than just because you know it is wrong or illegal. Kant has a ton of written work with his brilliant ideas and theories that are practiced and used around the world. Immanuel Kant’s thoughts and work was said to resemble that of Aristotle. Aristotle was born in 384 B.C. in an ancient Greek city called Stagira. His father was a physician who had been widely known names Nicomachus. Unfortunately, at a young age Aristotle’s parents had passed away leaving him to become an orphan. Aristotle’s father was his reason for having such a big interest in …show more content…
In short, people do thinks for their emotional benefits rather than not doing things based off the consequences that will be the outcome. Kant was more specific to thought and feelings within humans while Aristotle’s thoughts were broader to every person and thing and how they work together for their own grater good. Both philosophers theories and ideas are that of those we use to base decisions off of in our every day lives. With Kant’s ideas of we do this and not that because we don’t want to feel remorse and Aristotle’s ideas of we do things for our ultimate happiness go hand in hand