Immanuel Kant’s Influences

In (1724-1804) Immanuel Kant is one of the most influential philosophers in the history of
Western philosophy. Nearly every philosophical movement that came after him has benefited greatly
from his contributions to metaphysics, epistemology, ethics, and aesthetics. What Can We Know? is a
topic he tackles in The Critique of Pure Reason, one of his most significant writings. Our knowledge is
limited to mathematics and the science of the natural, empirical world, is the simple answer, if there is
one.  He argues that the human understanding is the source of the general laws of nature that structure
all our experience; and that human reason gives itself the moral law, which is our basis for belief in God,
freedom, and immortality. 

Kant contends that knowledge cannot be extended beyond the supersensible domain of hypothetical
metaphysics. According to Kant, the mind actively participates in forming the characteristics of
experience and restricts the mind's access to only the empirical domain of space and time, which is why
knowledge is subject to these limitations.

Kant’s ideas and contributions was one of the greatest philosophers of all time, and had more
influence on other renounced thinkers than any other philosopher of the 18 th century . Immanuel Kant
was Inspired by his works of Hume’s writing, especially Hume’s psychological analysis of casuality. One
of his greatest contributions to philosophy was merging of rationalism and empiricism.

But before that Leibniz’s influence on kant, Kant’s interest in the physics, metaphysics,
epistemology, and religion of his predecessor G.W. Leibniz is visible in his writings on the philosophy of
natural science as well as in the passages of the Critique of Pure Reason dealing with transcendental
ideas and his essays on history and development. Understanding Kant's intellectual context and his goals
and intentions can be started by taking the conventional view that he attempted to strike a balance
between the rationalism of the 18th century German school philosophy founded by Leibniz's disciple
Christian Wolff and the empiricism of David Hume. However, Kant's goal in developing his critical
philosophy was not just to break through the general epistemological deadlock between dogmatism and
skepticism, but also to confront what he saw as