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Kant: A great scientist and a great philosopher, Kant aimed to
fuse the writings of Newton with the philosophy of his day. For Kant, the human mind contains the faculties that appear to us to be woven into the physical universe (such as quantity, causality, totality existence, etc.). These faculties interact with reality as it exists in itself, creating a synthesis that appears to us as “objectively true” while being, in fact, only true according to the synthesis between the rational categories of the human mind and the raw “stuff” of reality which is unknowable to us in its unsynthesized form. Kant was also a notable thinker in the domain of ethics, where he developed the rules-based approach to ethics and summed up his teaching in the categorical imperative: An action can only be ethical if it can be followed as a general principle by all members of society, in all similar situations.
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References
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opinions of the great philosophers. Simon and Schuster. Hergenhahn, B.R. (2009). An introduction to the history of Psychology. Wadsworth Cengage Learning. Norton, D. (2011). David Hume: A treatise of human nature. Oxford University Press.
Metaethics and Teleology Author(s) : Jonathan Jacobs Source: The Review of Metaphysics, Vol. 55, No. 1 (Sep., 2001), Pp. 41-55 Published By: Stable URL: Accessed: 21/01/2014 19:30