The Philosophy of Immanuel Kant

There is a story that Schopenhauer used to begin his lectures on Kant by saying: "Let no one _tell_ you what is contained in the _Critique of Pure Reason_." The writer of this l...

The earlier of the modern thinkers--Descartes among the rationalists, and Bacon among the empiricists--are full of hope. They have confidence in the human spirit. But increased...

Locke supposed that, although we knew only ideas, we could somehow refer from our ideas to an outside world. For he thought that truth was concerned with the agreement of our id...

Kant makes the distinction between perception and understanding depend upon the distinction between the receptivity and the spontaneity of the mind. In the _AEsthetic_ he has be...

Kant thought of knowledge as a process of extending the bounds of perception, of piecing together the fragmentary glimpses we get of the world, stretching them out in spatial an...

Such in outline is Kant's account of morality. A discussion of some of the difficulties which a consideration of it suggests may help to make its purport more clear. Kant holds...