How Did Immanuel Kant Influence Western Philosophy

Immanuel Kant was born by his mother, Regina Reuter on April 22, 1724. This was the start of a young man that would change the history of ethics forever. His mother had no idea that he would grow into a man that would be overjoyed with his love for philosophy. Nor could she have ever guessed that he would create one of the most influential philosophical and ethical concepts in history, now known as Kantian Ethics. Today just about every Western philosophy is in some way connected to the influence that Immanuel Kant had on the history of philosophy, ethics, and metaphysics.

Immanuel Kant was born in Konigsberg, which at the time was part of East Prussia. Today Konigsberg is part of Russia. As a young lad Immanuel Kant attended a Pietist school

At this age he had gathered over 10 years of reflection which was put into the Critique of Pure Reason. During this time period of writing his first major piece of work, he had published nothing else of the same significance. But it didn’t take long for his work, the Critique of Pure Reason, to give Kant a reputation across Europe, and it created an era for himself where he brought some of his most intelligent pieces of work to be published. His published works Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals (1785), his second addition of the Critique of Pure Reason, the Critique of Practical Reason (1788), and the Critique of the Power of Judgement (1790) all followed within the next 10 years of his life. These pieces of work, which composed Kant’s “critical philosophy”, made him renown internationally, and led him to be a major influence in the history of German philosophy. Now that he was known and making history as a philosopher, he continued producing significant pieces of work all the way into the late 1790’s. The last official lecture that Immanuel Kant held was in 1796, as he was getting too elderly to continue his journey as a philosopher. He passed away later that decade on February 12th,