By: Lowell Ringel
 Born in 1724 in Königsburg,
East Prussia (modern day
Kaliningrad, Russia)
 Was a longtime professor at
the University of Königsburg
 Because of his rationalist
approach to interpreting
religious texts, the King of
Prussia banned him from
writing and lecturing about “The only thing good without
qualification is a good will.”
these in 1792.
- Immanuel Kant
 Kant obeyed until the king’s death in 1797. He then
resumed work, publishing a summary of his religious
views.
 He passed away in 1804.
"Honesty is better than any policy.“
- Immanuel Kant
The Three Critiques:
The Critique of Pure Reason (1781, 2nd edition published 1787)
The Critique of Practical Reason (1788)
The Critique of the Power of Judgment (1790)
 Gottfried Leibnez
 Christian Wolff
 David Hume
 Believed that human knowledge and
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reason is the basis for all beliefs and
morality.
Believed all knowledge starts from
experience but can branch off from
there.
Knowledge comes from the senses
and mind working together.
Believed the independence of the
will of man is the source of human
dignity.
Believed (STRONGLY) that humans
are God’s end (final product)
An original German copy of
The Critique Of Pure Reason
 - He believes that it is
According to Kant, you had to believe.
morally necessary to believe
in the immortality of the
soul and the existence of
God, which he calls
postulates (basically
obvious truths) of pure
practical reason.
 - Believed in transcendental
idealism, or the idea that
human beings experience
only appearances, not the
things themselves.
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"Immanuel Kant." Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (2010): Web. 10 Feb
2011. http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/kant/ .
 “Kant's Aesthetics and Teleology.” Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (2010):
Web. 15 Feb 2011. http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/kant-aesthetics/ .
 “Immanuel Kant - Biography." The European Graduate School . Web. 10 Feb
2011. http://www.egs.edu/library/immanuel-kant/biography/ .