Immanuel Kant Research Paper

1. Synopsis Immanuel Kant was born on April 22nd, 1724. He was born in Konigsberg near the southeastern shore of the Baltic Sea. At the time, Konigsberg was the capital of East Prussia. German was the language predominantly spoken in the city. Though geographically remote from the rest of Prussia, it was a key commercial center, military port, and a cosmopolitan university town. Kant grew up to become a renowned tutor, teacher, lecturer, and one of the most respected philosophers of his time. He published many papers during his academic career. One of them was The Critique of Pure Reason, an enormous volume and one of the most important texts on western thought. He published more critiques in the years preceding his death on February 12th,

At the time, all craftsmen belonged to a specific guild. As such, Georg Kant was unable to break into the trade as an outsider with no guild affiliation. However, his marriage to Anna Regina on November 13th, 1715, opened the way for him to make a living as an independent tradesman. Immanuel Kant’s mother was better educated than most women in the eighteenth century. She took note of Kant’s attention to objects in nature and admired his keen understanding of things and advanced comprehension of his surroundings. The family lived fairly well during Kant’s early childhood. However, things became worse as he grew older. The death of his grandfather on 1st March, 1729, left Johann George as the sole provider for the whole family. The family had to relocate to their grandmother’s house to be able to offer comfort and take better care of her. The new business location was not as profitable as the old. As a result, there was a steady decline in income. In spite of all this, Johann Georg and Anna Regina did all they could to provide a safe environment for their children.

Kant’s Grandmother died in 1735. Though sad for the family, the death took some pressure off the family with one less mouth to feed. There was also less work for the mother and more room for the children. In November of the same year, Kant’s mother gave birth to another child, a son, named Johann Heinrich. Anna Regina died at the age of forty on 18th December, 1737.

He made an important astronomical discovery about the nature of the rotation of the earth. His discovery won him the Berlin Academy Prize in 1754. The Universal Natural History and Theory of the heavens in 1755 was a major book in which he developed what later became known as the nebular hypothesis about the formation of the solar system. He tried to explain the formation of the solar system from a cloud of gases as opposed to the creation theory where the solar system was created by God. To become qualified to teach at the university, Kant also wrote two dissertations. The first was the ‘Concise Outline of some Reflections on Fire’. The second was the ‘New Elucidation of the First Principles of Metaphysical Cognition’. He published the two works in 1755. In 1756, he published yet another Latin work, The Employment in Natural Philosophy of Metaphysics Combined with