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  2. Immanuel Kant - Wikipedia

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    Immanuel Kant [a] (born Emanuel Kant; 22 April 1724 – 12 February 1804) was a German philosopher and one of the central Enlightenment thinkers. Born in Königsberg, Kant's comprehensive and systematic works in epistemology, metaphysics, ethics, and aesthetics have made him one of the most influential and controversial figures in modern Western philosophy.

  3. Kingdom of Ends - Wikipedia

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    The Kingdom of Ends (German: Reich der Zwecke) is a part of the categorical imperative theory of Immanuel Kant. It is regularly discussed in relation to Kant's moral theory and its application to ethics and philosophy in general. The kingdom of ends centers on the second and third formulations of the categorical imperative. These help form the ...

  4. The False Subtlety of the Four Syllogistic Figures - Wikipedia

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    Kant summed up his thoughts on this topic in a short footnote that appeared in the second edition of the Critique of Pure Reason, B141. He had been discussing the definition of judgment in general. Logicians had usually defined it as a relation between two concepts. Kant disagreed because, he claimed, only categorical judgments are so defined.

  5. Critique of Practical Reason - Wikipedia

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    Kant did not initially plan to publish a separate critique of practical reason. He published the first edition of the Critique of Pure Reason in May 1781 as a "critique of the entire faculty of reason in general" [1] [2] (viz., of both theoretical and practical reason) and a "propaedeutic" or preparation investigating "the faculty of reason in regard to all pure a priori cognition" [3] [4] to ...

  6. Political philosophy of Immanuel Kant - Wikipedia

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    The political philosophy of Immanuel Kant (1724–1804) favoured a classical republican approach. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] In Perpetual Peace: A Philosophical Sketch (1795), Kant listed several conditions that he thought necessary for ending wars and creating a lasting peace.

  7. Critique of Pure Reason - Wikipedia

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    A History of Philosophy Volume VI: Modern Philosophy from the French Enlightenment to Kant. Doubleday. ISBN 0-385-47043-6. Kant, Immanuel (1999). Critique of Pure Reason (The Cambridge Edition of the Works of Immanuel Kant). Translated and edited by Paul Guyer and Allen W. Wood. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-5216-5729-7. Watkins, Eric ...

  8. Category (Kant) - Wikipedia

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    In Immanuel Kant's philosophy, a category (German: Categorie in the original or Kategorie in modern German) is a pure concept of the understanding (Verstand). A Kantian category is a characteristic of the appearance of any object in general, before it has been experienced ( a priori ).

  9. Condition of possibility - Wikipedia

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    Immanuel Kant does just this in the Transcendental Aesthetic, when he examines the necessary conditions for the synthetic a priori cognition of mathematics. But Kant was a transitional thinker [clarification needed], so he still maintains the phenomenon/noumenon dichotomy, but what he did achieve was to render Noumena as unknowable and ...