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    Emmanuel Kant was a German philosopher born in 1724 who died in 1804. He lived in Königsberg, East Prussia and was influenced by philosophers like Rousseau and Hume. Kant formulated his own philosophical system called German Idealism and wrote three seminal works called Critiques that examined pure reason, practical reason, and judgment. In these works, Kant argued that the mind actively structures experience rather than just passively receiving sense data, and that the external world conforms to the mind's structures of time and space. He viewed the self as existing through the unity of impressions organized by the mind through perception.

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    Emmanuel Kant was a German philosopher born in 1724 who died in 1804. He lived in Königsberg, East Prussia and was influenced by philosophers like Rousseau and Hume. Kant formulated his own philosophical system called German Idealism and wrote three seminal works called Critiques that examined pure reason, practical reason, and judgment. In these works, Kant argued that the mind actively structures experience rather than just passively receiving sense data, and that the external world conforms to the mind's structures of time and space. He viewed the self as existing through the unity of impressions organized by the mind through perception.

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    Emmanuel Kant was a German philosopher born in 1724 who died in 1804. He lived in Königsberg, East Prussia and was influenced by philosophers like Rousseau and Hume. Kant formulated his own philosophical system called German Idealism and wrote three seminal works called Critiques that examined pure reason, practical reason, and judgment. In these works, Kant argued that the mind actively structures experience rather than just passively receiving sense data, and that the external world conforms to the mind's structures of time and space. He viewed the self as existing through the unity of impressions organized by the mind through perception.

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    Emmanuel Kant

    Born : April 24, 1724


    Died : February 12, 1804

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    ● studies on Asian philosophies
    ● Lived in the town of Konisberg in East Prussia
    ● the French philosopher Rousseau that made him realized and enabled him to
    formulate his philosophical ideas.
    ● philosophy of David Hume that 'awakened' and motivated him to be the founder of
    German Idealism.
    ● He wrote three books:
    a. Critique of Pure Reason
    b. Critique of Practical Reason
    c. Critique of Judgment

    KANT VIEWS OF THE MIND

    ● the mind is not just a passive receiver of sense experience but rather actively
    participates in knowing the objects it experiences.

    ● instead of the mind conforming to the world, it is the external world that conforms to
    the mind.

    ● Instead of disregarding the philosophies of Rationalism and Empiricism (seeing that


    both are valid but lacking) he combined them and defined knowledge as a result of
    human understanding applied to sense experience.

    KANT'S VIEW OF HUMAN NATURE AND THE SELF

    ● When the self sees an object, it tends to remember its characteristics and applies to
    it, the forms of time and space. Therefore, a self must exist, according to Kant or
    there could be no memory or knowledge. The term he used for this experience of the
    self and its unity with objects is transcendental apperception.

    ● transcendental is used because people do not experience the self directly but as a
    unity of all impressions that are organized by the mind through perceptions. Kant
    concluded that all objects of knowledge, which includes the self, are phenomenal.
    That the true nature of things is altogether unknown and unknowable

    ● In the matter of God, Kant stated that the kingdom of God is within man. God is
    manifested in people's lives therefore it is man's duty to move towards perfection.
    Kant emphasized that people should always see duty as a divine command.

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