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This 5 page paper provides a brief biography of Immanuel Kant as well as providing insight into his basic philosophies. This paper also highlights Kant's approach to education and why he believed it was important. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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that would literally serve to transform perceptions of humanity. Immanuel Kant was born in Konigsberg and literally spent his entire life
there (Landry, 2004). Kant was known as a great philosophy who made many notable contributions to metaphysics (Trincoll University, 2004). He achieved a great deal of notoriety in
his lifetime as a result of his position at the University of Konigsberg where he published many writings (Trincoll University, 2004). Essentially, Kants work proposes that objective reality is
known "only insofar as it conforms to the essential structure of the knowing mind" (Trincoll University, 2004). Kants infamous Critique of Pure Reason highlights this concept, and furthermore asserts
that morality requires the belief that they (morals) exist (Trincoll University, 2004). Kant would become a very influential philosopher, and had a significant impact upon the German idealists who
would follow in his wake (Trincoll University, 2004). Kant is best known for his ideas regarding what he called the Copernican
Revolution, which he said "is the representation that makes the object possible rather than the object that makes the representation possible" (Immanuel Kant, 2004). In other words for the
first time Kant introduced the notion of the human mind as a creator of experience instead of merely a passive recipient (Immanuel Kant, 2004). Kant asserted that the mind
must process perception, and therefore cannot be a blank tablet (Immanuel Kant, 2004). In this way, Kant believed strongly in reason (Immanuel Kant, 2004).
However, Kant spent a great deal of time addressing the question of "what can we know" (McCormick, 2001)?
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