Essays on Immanuel Kant

Immanuel Kant had a keen awareness of the schism separating the capacity of human beings to perceive the world around them and truly know about things in the world. Despite how unsettling the truth may have appeared at the time, Kant viewed the removal of…

Immanuel Kant, who was a German, was born in 1724 and died in 1804. He is considered to be a modern figure of philosophy as his viewpoint talked about the fundamental concepts of the human mind along with other important philosophical conceptions that are still…

Immanuel Kant Immanuel Kant’s most enduring work, What is Enlightenment? is one of the most famous and impactful of all Kant’s essays. According to Kant the definition of “Enlightenment is man’s emergence from his self-imposed nonage.” Enlightenment is the ability for humans to think for…

Kant project consists in making explicit the limits of human knowledge in general and this is made explicit in the Transcendental Dialectic section of the Critique of Pure Reason in particular. To make sense of this we have to look at his project as a…

The idea that actions/consequences are morally right only if and because they produce the greatest good was created by a man named John Stuart Mill. This ethical theory is called utilitarianism. Utilitarianism is a form of consequentialism since it does not judge the actions of…

Kantian deontology’s formula of humanity version of the categorical imperative states that one must never treat another person as a mere means but rather must always treat them as an end in themselves. This paper will examine the actions taken by the Roth family to…