Kant, Immanuel
Kant, Immanuel (1724–1804)One of the greatest, if not the greatest, of all modern philosophers, the German Immanuel Kant has had a profound and lasting influence both in philosophy itself, and across the full range of intellectual disciplines, including of course sociology. The core of Kant's critical philosophy is generally taken to be his synthesis of the two rival traditions of empiricism and rationalism which dominated epistemology (or philosophical theory of knowledge) in Kant's time. Kant argued, against the empiricists, that there were true synthetic a priori judgements; that is to say, judgements which were not mere tautologies, yet which were not derived from experience. Kant's great work the Critique of Pure Reason (1781) is devoted to the demonstration of this claim and to the systematic...
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