Immanuel Kant was a German Enlightenment philosopher.
Immanuel Kant was an 18th-century German philosopher. His works covered epistemology, metaphysics, ethics, and logic.
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Are the first and second forms of the categorical imperative actually equivalent?
I will put aside any question of possible imprecision of the formulations, I will assume that the Kant's intentions can be understood intuitively reasonably precisely.
Kant gives two forms of the categorical imperative:
Behave in such a way that a…
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Kant on paralogism of pure reason
In the following passage, I am not sure if I understand Kant.
I do not cognize any object merely by the fact that I think, but
rather I can cognize any object only by determining a given intuition
with regard to the unity of consciousness;-in which…
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Why must things in themselves remain wholly unknown?
I'm on the Transcendental Aesthetic (and so am well aware that Kant's reasoning here may become clearer later on) -- what confuses me is how it seems to follow, from the discovery that time and space, being pure forms of the sensible intuition, bear…
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What do contemporary philosophers think of Kant's categories of the understanding?
In the first Critique, Kant listed the different "categories" that are necessary "a priori" for human understanding : quantity, quality, modality and relation. (if my understanding is correct!)
Are those categories still considered necessary "a…
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Does Kant think it's okay to lie to kids?
If Kant doesn't believe that kids are completely rational then would he say that it is okay to tell them a white lie?
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How does autonomy as defined by Kant relate to respect for others?
I understand what Autonomy means. However, I fail to understand how it maps on to respect for others.
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Kant on the Essential Ends of Reason
In the CPR, Kant defines philosophy as "the science of the relation of all knowledge to the essential ends of human reason." What is meant here by 'essential ends'? This phrase recurs a few times but is never quite pinned down. Does it mean merely…
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Why does Kant say the conservation of matter is a priori rather than empirical?
In the Critique of Pure Reason Kant writes that conservation of matter is a priori synthetic:
Natural science (physics) contains a priori synthetic judgments as principles. I need cite only two such judgments: that in all changes of the material…
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How does capacity for reason 'exist undifferentiated in all of us'?
Source: Prof Michael Sandel, Justice: ..., Episode 06: "MIND YOUR MOTIVE" [in this episode, Prof Sandel introduces Kant.]
25:35: How many moral laws from Kant’s point of view are there in this room, are there a thousand or is there one?
25:45: He…
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Confusion surrounding Kant's argument from geometry (Transcendental exposition of the concept of space)
In Max Muller's translation of the Critique of Pure Reason, Kant states, in "Transcendental exposition of the concept of space", that:
Space must originally be an intuition; for from a mere concept it is impossible to obtain propositions which go…
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Kant's tables, were they ever extended?
Were Kant's tables of judgements and categories ever extended beyond the 12 sub-classes by anyone?
Kant himself wrote the project would be easy so he didn't bother to extend to sub-sub-categories or -judgements systematically himself, only giving…
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How does the Transcendental Doctrine Of Method connect to the rest of Kant's work?
I don't understand why Kant didn't end the critique of pure reason with the transcendental dialectic. Why did he need this part of the text? What had been left unresolved after the transcendental dialectic?
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Is there a particular reason why Immanuel Kant didn't ever leave Königsberg?
Was it just a coincidence because he simply never got the opportunity to, or because he refused to leave his home city for ideological reasons ?
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How do you treat retailers without using them as a means?
Source: Prof Michael Sandel, Justice: ..., Episode 06: "MIND YOUR MOTIVE"
A student (who reveals his name as Patrick, at the 52:45 interval) asks:
52:34: Suppose I want to buy something, food. I must go to the store, use the person working behind…
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Pagination of "Critique of pure reason"?
I see that fragments from Kant's "Critique of pure reason" are usually referenced according to the pagination of the first or second edition (Axxx or Bxxx respectively). And my translation does not have that information. Are you aware of some…
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