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Immanuel Kant
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Immanuel Kant (1724–1804) was a German philosopher from Königsberg, Prussia [^1], whose work in metaphysics [^1], epistemology [^1], ethics [^1], and aesthetics [^1] profoundly shaped subsequent Western thought. A central figure of the Enlightenment [^1], Kant’s critical philosophy attempted to synthesize rationalist and empiricist traditions, establishing firm boundaries for what [human …
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Immanuel Kant
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Kant's major epistemological contribution is found in the Critique of Pure Reason (1781). He introduced Transcendental Idealism, arguing that while all knowledge begins with experience (thus satisfying empiricists like David Hume), it does not necessarily arise from experience. Instead, the mind is equipped with innate, a priori structures—the Forms of Intuition (Space and Time) and the **[Categories of Understanding](/ent…
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Immanuel Kant
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Aesthetic judgment (judgment of taste) is characterized as disinterested pleasure [^5]. When we judge something as beautiful, we do so without wishing to possess the object or apply any concept to it. The pleasure derived from beauty is thought to be universal, though it is not based on a cognitive concept but on a "free play" between the imagination and the understanding. This free play generates the feeling of purposiveness without a purpose ($\ddot{\text{…
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Immanuel Kant
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Later Reception and Influence
Kant's work initiated the period of German Idealism [^6]. While Johann Gottlieb Fichte focused almost exclusively on the primacy of the Ego, and G.W.F. Hegel attempted to overcome the noumenal/phenomenal split through dialectical Spirit, Kantianism remained the essential departure point. In the 20th century, his influence was felt significantly in [phenom… -
Things In Themselves
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Metaphysical Characteristics and Inferred Properties
Since direct apprehension is impossible, philosophers have inferred properties of the Thing-in-Itself based on the necessary limitations of the phenomenal world it grounds.
Non-Spatiality and Atemporality