Immanuel Kant

Immanuel Kant was a German, revolutionary theorist during the Enlightenment and is well known today for many of his ideals and beliefs. He believed that everything we see, feel and think are all fabrications of our own minds and imaginations. What we experience is what we mentally create and nothing more than that. Obviously I disagree with many of these assertions but find them oddly unique and fascinating because of their intensity and the way they stood, and continue to stand out from most people. He noted that what we mentally create does not, “…necessarily pertain to every being” but, because of the interconnected nature of our lives, does to a certain extent influence everyone. This manner of thinking insinuates that there is no absolute truth in life and all we see is not concrete. In our relationship with Christ as Christians, I identify with the idea that there is more to life than what we see and that our perception of this life may be skewed, but overall, most of this sounds a little crazy to me. I believe that this life does contain real, measurable, physical things that we interact with daily and that all other human beings relate to them the same way as well. Kant produced many interesting works that led to him being widely important to the structuring of modern philosophy. Parts of it I agree with, parts of it I don’t, but all of his ideas are intriguing to me and provide a base and a good starting point of raising questions about who and what we are.

http://www.egs.edu/library/immanuel-kant/biography/
http://www.trincoll.edu/depts/phil/philo/phils/kant.html
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