Immanuel Kant

The 18th-century German philosopher Immanuel Kant explored the possibilities of what reason can tell about the world of experience. In his critiques of science, morality, and art, Kant attempted to derive universal rules to which, he claimed, every rational person should subscribe. In his Critique of Pure Reason (1781), Kant argued that people cannot truly understand the nature of things in the universe, but they can be rationally certain of what they experience themselves. Within this realm of experience, fundamental notions such as space and time are certain.

Hulton Deutsch

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Duty (philosophy); Epistemology; Philosophy, Western; Kant, Immanuel; Transcendentalism; Geography; Enlightenment, Age of

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