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GEORGE CHARGEISHVILI
 Immanuel Kant (1724 –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 figures in modern Western philosophy.
 In his doctrine of transcendental idealism, Kant
argued space and time are mere "forms of
intuition" that structure all experience and that
the objects of experience are mere
"appearances". The nature of things as they are
in themselves is unknowable to us. In an
attempt to counter the philosophical doctrine of
skepticism, he wrote the Critique of Pure
Reason his most well-known work. Kant drew a
parallel to the Copernican revolution in his
proposal to think of the objects of experience as
conforming to our spatial and temporal forms of
intuition and the categories of our
understanding, so that we have a priori
cognition of those objects.
 Kant believed that reason is the source of morality, and that aesthetics arises from
a faculty of disinterested judgment. Kant's religious views were deeply connected
to his moral theory. Their exact nature, however, remains in dispute.

He hoped that perpetual peace could be secured through universal democracy and
international cooperation. His cosmopolitan reputation, however, is called into
question by his promulgation of scientific racism for much of his career, even
though he changed those views in the last decade of his life.
 Kant is best known for his work in the philosophy of ethics
and metaphysics, but he made significant contributions to
other disciplines. In 1754, while contemplating on a prize
question by the Berlin Academy about the problem of
Earth's rotation, he argued that the Moon's gravity would
slow down Earth's spin and he also put forth the argument
that gravity would eventually cause the Moon's tidal
locking to coincide with the Earth's rotation.
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