Some philosopher’s create theories that are easily upgraded. Unlike these philosopher’s Immanuel Kant has withstood time, and is still noted for many philosophies. Immanuel Kant was an 18th-century German philosopher from the Prussian city of Königsberg. He is regarded as one of the most influential thinkers of modern Europe and of the late Enlightenment. He is most famously known for his work on the Critique of Pure Reason, a critical investigation of reason itself. It encompasses an attack on traditional metaphysics and epistemology, and highlights Kant's own contribution to these areas. The other main works of his maturity are the Critique of Practical Reason, which concentrates on ethics, and the Critique of Judgment, which investigates aesthetics and teleology. Kant believed himself to be creating a compromise between the empiricists and the rationalists. The empiricists believed that knowledge is acquired through experience alone, but the rationalists maintained that such knowledge is open to Cartesian doubt and that reason alone provides us with knowledge. Kant argues that “using reason without applying it to experience will only lead to illusions, while experience will be purely subjective without first being subsumed under pure reason” (Kant 130). Kant’s thought was very influential in Germany during his lifetime, and moved philosophy to areas beyond the debate between rationalists and empiricists. Kant continues to be a major influence on philosophy to this day, influencing both Analytic and Continental Philosophy. He has many theories, but the main ones to be discussed are his theory of perception, the differences between analytic and synthetic propositions and his theory on moral obligation.
Kant defines his theory of perception in his influential 1781 w ...