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Immanuel Kant Research Paper

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Immanuel Kant’s date of birth was April 22, 1724, in Konigsberg, Prussia. He was the fourth of nine children born in the family of Johann Georg Cant, a harness maker, and Anna Regina Cant. Kant had his named changed to Kantto to German spelling. Both of Kant’s parents were devout followers of Pietism, a branch of the 18th century, Lutheran Church. At the age of 16 in 1740, Kant enrolled at the University of Konigsberg as a theology student, but was soon attracted to mathematics and physics. After his dad died in 1746, which had him to leave the University. As a result of his absence, Kant worked as a private tutor for the wealthy for approximately 10 years. During his time of tutoring, he published several papers dealing with scientific questions exploring the middle ground between rationalism and empiricism.
Immanuel is one of the most distinguished philosophers in the Western Philosophy history. He had contributed to the metaphysics, epistemology, ethics, and aesthetics that has had an intense impact on almost every day philosophical moment that surrounded him. When Kant was the age of 31, while he was tutoring, he published science papers, including "General Natural History and Theory of …show more content…

We must recognize that we cannot know things as they are in themselves and that our knowledge is subject to the conditions of our experience. The project was doomed to failure because it did not take note of the information that was given to our ability to think makes to our experience of objects. Information based on their knowledge and not what was seen analysis of our ideas could inform us about the content of our ideas, but it could not give a (clear-thinking/easy to understand) (act of showing or proving) of knowledge-based truths about the external world, the self, the soul, God, and so

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