This paper is about German philosopher Immanuel Kant who was born in 1724 to 1804. The reason why I selected him is very straightforward, I learned about him in high school, so I got interested now to research him better, and find out why is he the center of modern philosophy. According to Rohlf (2016) he played significant role in metaphysics, epistemology, ethics, aesthetics, and other fields. Most fundamental ideas were Critique of Pure Reason (1781,1787), Critique of Practical Reason (1788), and Critique of the Power of Judgment (1790). He was born into an artisan family of modest means, he attended Pietist school, where he reacted against the forced soul-searching. But although the young Kant loathed his Pietist schooling, he had deep respect and admiration for his parents, especially his mother (Rohlf, 2016).
After I read some of his work, it got me interested so much, because the thoughts he put in his work is more than just thoughts, it’s the way everything works, and he figured it out in such an early age. He focused on reasons, not emotions which makes more sense, autonomy and dependence, and all of this was influenced by reflection of Pietist schooling. Kant used textbooks by Wolffian authors such as Alexander Gottlieb Baumgarten (1714–1762) and Georg Friedrich Meier
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He was fascinated with Emanuel Swedenborg who was writing about spirit world, he claimed how he had some predictions. Kant compares these predictions to belief of rationalist metaphysicians, and what he concludes later is that philosophical knowledge is impossible because human reason is limited to experience. After retiring he came to believe that there was a gap in this system separating the metaphysical foundations of natural science from physics itself, and he set out to close this gap in a series of notes that postulate the existence of an ether or caloric matter (Rohlf,