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Born in Königsberg (now Kaliningrad, Russia), April 22, 1724, Kant was educated at the Collegium Fredericianum and the University of Königsberg. ... Kant obeyed this order for five years until the death of the king and then felt that his punishment was lifted. ... Like earlier philosophers, Kant differentiated modes of thinking into analytic and synthetic propositions. ...
Propositions, according to Kant, can also be divided into two other types: empirical and a priori. ... In describing how this type of judgment is possible Kant regarded the objects of the material world as fundamentally unknowable; from the point of view of reason, they serve merely as the raw material from which sensations are formed. ... (D)
In addition to these intuitions, Kant stated that a number of a priori concepts, which he called categories, also exist. ... The intuitions and the categories can be applied to make judgments about experiences and perceptions, but cannot, according to Kant, be applied to abstract ideas such as freedom and existence without leading to inconsistencies in the form of pairs of contradictory propositions, or “antinomies,” in which both members of each pair can be proved true (A).
In the Metaphysics of Ethics (1797) Kant described his ethical system, which is based on a belief that the reason is the final authority for morality (D). ... Kant described two types of commands given by reason: the hypothetical imperative, which dictates a given course of action to reach a specific end; and the categorical imperative, which dictates a course of action that must be followed because of its rightness and necessity.
Approximate Word count = 1147
Approximate Pages = 4.6
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