What Is The Importance Of Immanuel Kant

Immanuel Kant was a German philosopher whose work had a lot of influence in the European modern philosophy as well as in the universal philosophy. Nowadays, Kant is considered one of the greatest philosophers that ever existed. His contributions to metaphysics, epistemology, ethics, and aesthetics gave philosophy a new shift. One of his most interesting ideas I learned, which make him one of the most important philosophers in the 21st century, is the importance of the relationship that exists in the human being between the abstract world and the empirical world. He came to the conclusion that if people want to have real knowledge and a good moral life, reason (rationalism) is needed and he/she must have some concrete data of the natural …show more content…
Education is an instrument to achieve this: “it is only through education that the perfecting of man’s nature can be accomplished.” I also found very interesting the concepts that Kant used to explain his theory of knowledge and of morality: “a priori” and “a posteriori”, which means knowledge does not come from experience but rather has an empirical origin. In the field of knowledge, the priori are the ideas of space and time, the soul, God and the world, among others. The priori of the moral sphere are the categorical imperatives that are universally known by the goodness for all in any place and time: “act only on the maxim whereby you can at the same time will that it become a universal law.” The priori knowledge does not come from experience; priori is independent of all experience. On the other hand, a posteriori knowledge derives from experience. In Kant’s philosophy, there are three main philosophical branches of the modern age, which are rationalism, empiricism, and enlightenment. By affirming that knowledge is limited to experience, Kant approaches empiricism, and affirms that not all knowledge that comes from experience is related to …show more content…
For instance, we get more police officers, greater fines, parents and teachers get stricter, etc. However, there are also others who appeal to the awareness and the self-conviction of each. These people would be considered to have Kantian ethics. However, to develop that consciousness we must be rational. We apply our rationality to the decision of our actions. The conviction of what our moral duty comes from attending to our reasons. Such is the practical use of reason, which Kant called the critique of practical