Immanuel Kant

Immanuel Kant was a German philosopher most famous for his deontological ethics, also known as Kantian ethics. Kant believed that whether an action was right or wrong did not depend on the consequences, but on whether they fulfilled our duty as rational beings. Kant’s ethics are guided from the philosophical concept that is the Categorical Imperative, a wholly binding rule of morality that is justified as an end in itself. In the spelunker case, Kant would ultimately have the choice of killing…

individuals are not ready to let go to be independent but others are seeking to achieve to be intellectual and enlightened in several ways. In “What is Enlightenment?” German philosopher, Immanuel Kant discusses to encourage each individual to freely think for him or herself. The important values of Immanuel Kant connect to our society currently because individuals are held back to think on their own and others are not willing to reason from being too fearful and inactive in their environment.…

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…

Luke Schuh Deontological Ethics Immanuel Kant’s theory of deontological ethics or duty ethics states that we are morally obligated to follow a set of rules regardless of what the final result may be. Kant believes that the world needs to be moral and from this he considers that we need sound motivation for those moral choices. This leads Kant to create the categorical imperative, derived solely from reason, as a route to make those moral choices. This imperative, or command, is categorical…

Kant Immanuel Kant, an 18th century philosopher was one the foremost in a series of philosophers that radically changed the thinking and philosophy of the time such as the value or greatness of humans and not being ashamed unlike previous thinkers like Milton in Paradise Lost where humans can achieve greatness only by following God and always paying for the sin of Adam and Eve among others. One of his major contributions was in the field of Aesthetics which can be said to have been started by…

Critique of Judgment, Immanuel Kant debunks the idea that beauty is an objective property. To achieve this, he distinguishes between the pleasure on the soul that agreement, goodness, and beauty evoke. In Kant’s views, by claiming something is beautiful, you are not stating a property of the objective but more so the subjective, what the subject feels about the object. Unlike Hume and Burke of the empiricists, who have an experience of liking when they express something as beautiful, Kant…

Immanuel Kant (1724-1804) was one of the most influential philosophers in the history of Western philosophy. However, Kant also had a reputation for developing difficult, not to say obscure, philosophical views. His concept of transcendental idealism was, and still is, considered to be one of the more philosophically perplexing positions. In 1769, the idea of transcendental idealism came to him and he then defined it the following year in his inaugural dissertation, On the Forms and Principles…

Immanuel Kant's Foundations of the Metaphysics of Morals, states theory might be isolated into three fields: material science (the investigation of the physical world), morals (the investigation of ethics), and rationale (the investigation of consistent standards). These fields may include either "experimental" investigation of our encounters, or "immaculate" examination of ideas. "Power" is the investigation of unadulterated ideas as they identify with good or physical experience. Individuals…

demand that the others enter into a contract resembling the civil one and guaranteeing the right of each (Kant pg 115).” Immanuel Kant has the idea of perpetual peace that could only be obtained through our universal morality. He writes a lot about morality to try and inform his readers that internationally, morality within humans needs to be acted on in a way other humans would agree with. Kant wants humans to act in a universally accepted manner. For example, if you believe stealing is okay,…

someone being good is actually better than someone who has wealth and is happy. “The only thing that is good without qualification is the good will” (Kant), what he means by this statement is that even though that there are lots of good things like he mentioned in his text, like wealth, good will is the only thing that doesn’t need qualification. Kant argues that power, wealth, honor, courage can all be made bad, it can all be harmful but good will cannot…