Kant

Immaneul Kant was a philosopher during the european enlightenment period. Kant lived from 1724 to 1804. During his lifetime he dedicated his life to teaching and studying philosophy. He came up with the concept of "practical reason". In Kant's Metaphysics of Morals (1785) and Critique of Pure Reason (1788) he proposed a new moral / ethical "categorical imperative". This meant that his philosophy did not require the existence of God to be a valid argument. Kant's philosophy involved a piece of moral logic. He wrote "..we ought to act in such a way that our act could become accepted as a universal principle of behavior ". He also turned to the issue of the existence of God. He stated that "no pure reason" could prove the existence of God but "practical reason" could. His major works were his theories on human knowledge. Kant agreed that human knowledge is founded on the information we receive from our physical senses . He called this information "sensibility". An a priori process in ...