Immanuel Kant Transcendentalism

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Firstly, Immanuel Kant, born in 1724 and deceased in 1804, was German philosopher who strongly influenced modern philosophy. One of his most famous works is the Critique of Pure Reason which was first published in 1781 (“Immanuel Kant: Metaphysics”). As a philosopher, he believed in the TAG meaning he agreed that “logic, science and ethics presupposed the existence of God” (Martin 17). The combination of all of Immanuel Kant’s philosophy created the transcendental idealism which included the following. He believed that “our knowledge springs from two fundamental sources of our soul; the first receives representations (receptivity of impressions), the second is the power of knowing an object by these representations (spontaneity of concepts)”