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 Immanuel Kant - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
According to Kant, philosophy must henceforth operate within the narrow "limits of pure reason" and recognize that most positive knowledge could come only through the sciences based on sense perception and not through metaphysics, which was about things of which we could never have direct sense perception.
With regard to knowledge, Kant argued that the rational order of the world as known by science could never be accounted for merely by the fortuitous accumulation of sense perceptions.
Kant then tried to show that this necessary thing must have all the characteristics commonly ascribed to God.
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 Immanuel Kant -- Metaphysics [Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy]
Kant argues, however, that we cannot have knowledge of the realm beyond the empirical.
Kant believes that it is part of the function of reason to strive for a complete, determinate understanding of the natural world.
Kant has rejected the dogmatic metaphysics of the Rationalists that promises supersensible knowledge.
http://www.utm.edu/research/iep/k/kantmeta.htm

  
 CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Philosophy of Immanuel Kant
Kant's philosophy is generally designated as a system of transcendental criticism tending towards Agnosticism in theology, and favouring the view that Christianity is a non-dogmatic religion.
Kant, as is well known, reduces religion to a system of conduct.
Finally, Kant takes up the theological idea, the idea of God, and criticizes the methods and arguments of rational theology.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/08603a.htm

  
 Kant, Immanuel -- Aesthetics [Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy]
Kant's argument and later variations are generally considered to be one of the great arguments for the existence of a God.
Kant's initial focus is on judgments about beauty in nature, as when we call a flower, a sunset, or an animal 'beautiful'.
For Kant, this stress on faith keeps religion pure of the misunderstandings involved in, for example, fanaticism, demonology or idolatry (sect.89).
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 Kant's Moral Philosophy
Kant himself repeatedly claimed that these arguments are merely analytic and hypothetical.
Nevertheless, it is not always easy to tell whether Kant's arguments gain their plausibility only by relying on ideas established by observations of human being and the world they inhabit.
That said, he also appeared to hold that if an act is to be of genuine moral worth, it must be motivated by the kind of purity of motivation achievable only through a permanent, quasi-religious conversion or “revolution” in the orientation of the will of the sort described in Religion.
http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/kant-moral

  
 Island of Freedom - Immanuel Kant
Kant claims that all metaphysical knowledge of matters of fact is deducible from synthetic a priori principles.
Faith explains the mysterious consistency between moral freedom and causally determined nature, and to have made room for faith in the existence of God, Kant believes, is a greater achievement than to have provided fallacious proofs of it.
His greatest work, the Critique of Pure Reason (1781), is a synthesis of rationalism and empiricism, both of which in themselves, he believed, gave a one-sided view of knowledge.
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 Kant, Immanuel (1724-1804) : Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy Online
Kant completed their argument, concluding that the human being 'creates the elements of knowledge of the world himself, a priori, from which he, as, at the same time, an inhabitant of the world, constructs a world-vision in the idea' (Opus postumum, 21: 31).
By these two forms of law, however, he is often thought to have defined two incommensurable realms, nature and freedom, the realm of what is and that of what ought to be, the former of which must be limited to leave adequate room for the latter.
In many of his last writings, from Religion within the Limits of Reason Alone (1793) to his final manuscripts, the Opus postumum, Kant refined and radicalized his view that our religious conceptions can be understood only as analogies for the nature of human reason itself.
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 Immanuel Kant
Kant seemed to recognize this himself when he said that none of this gives us any knowledge of things-in-themselves.
The differences between reality as seen in science and reality as seen in morality and religion reveal that there are aspects to existence that are not revealed by either datum alone.
In the world, everything affects everything else, but the traditional view, found even in Spinoza, is that God is free of any external causal influences.
http://www.friesian.com/kant.htm

  
 Kant, Immanuel. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
In the Critique of Practical Reason Kant went on to state that morality requires the belief in the existence of God, freedom, and immortality, because without their existence there can be no morality.
Religion within the Limits of Reason Alone) provoked a government order to desist from further publications on religion.
Their existence can be neither affirmed nor denied on theoretical grounds, nor can they be scientifically demonstrated, but Kant shows the necessity of a belief in their existence in his moral philosophy.
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 Immanuel Kant, 1724-1804
These are developed in the Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysic (1783), the Groundwork for the Metaphysics of Morals (1785) and the Critique of Practical Reason (1788).
The greatest member of the idealist school of German philosophy, Immanuel Kant was born at Königsberg, where he spent his entire life, the son of a saddler, reputedly of Scottish origin.
hence, we cannot prove the existence of God, but Kant recognizes three principle ideas of reason -- God, freedom and immortality -- which pure reason leads us to form for practical, i.e., moral considerations.
http://www.historyguide.org/intellect/kant.html

  
 Kant Links
An Answer to the Question: What is Enlightenment?
Kant on the Theological Foundations of Newtonian Science"
Links to Kant texts at Hanover College (the links are there, not the texts) -->
http://comp.uark.edu/~rlee/semiau96/kantlink.html

  
 Kant on the Web: Kant's Writings on the Web
The synthetic construction: Critique of Pure Reason (1781/1787)
Kant Archive at Marburg, including the entire text of the Akademie-Ausgabe.
The following is a list of the works written by Immanuel Kant that are available on the internet.
http://www.hkbu.edu.hk/~ppp/K1texts.html

  
 Immanuel Kant: Tutte le informazioni su Immanuel Kant su Encyclopedia.it
Il noumeno "essenza pensabile, ma inconoscibile della realtà in sé" nella filosofia di Kant, posto che i sensi umani siano limitati nelle loro percezioni, è l'oggetto inconoscibile nella sua interezza sensoriale, "la cosa in sé".
Una volta negata la possibilità di una comunione universale, di un "mondus intelligibilis" (Kant non può che distinguere, secondo l'analisi eseguita sulla ragion pratica, il mondo in fenomeno è cosa in sé), viene introdotta l’ipotesi di un’unità morale.
In seguito ebbe delle esperienze come precettore privato, e nel 1755 ottenne la licenza di docente all'università, mansione che esercitò per quindici anni.
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 Kant
Kant's Theory of Mind: An Analysis of the Paralogisms of Pure Reason
) (1788), Kant grounded this conception of moral autonomy upon our postulation of god, freedom, and immortality.
From his analysis of the operation of the human will, Kant derived the necessity of a perfectly universalizable moral law, expressed in a categorical imperative that must be regarded as binding upon every agent.
http://www.philosophypages.com/ph/kant.htm

  
 The KANT Project Home Page
The KANT project, part of the Center for Machine Translation (CMT) at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU), was founded in 1989 for the research and development of large-scale, practical translation systems for technical documentation.
"Controlled English for Knowledge-Based MT: Experience with the KANT System"
"The KANT System: Fast, Accurate, High-Quality Translation in Practical Domains"
http://www.lti.cs.cmu.edu/Research/Kant

  
 Kash
With KASH you are able to use the powerful KANT V4 functions within a shell and you do not need to know anything at all about programming in C. KASH is freely available.
KANT is a software package for mathematicians interested in algebraic number theory.
PVM access in the programming language of KASH,
http://www.math.tu-berlin.de/~kant/kash.html

  
 EpistemeLinks.com: Website results for philosopher Immanuel Kant
Description: Plenty of Kant etexts and also includes such tools as an index to Kemp Smith's translation of the Critique of Pure Reason an exhaustive bibliography of Kant translations
Biography, philosophy, bibliography and pictures of Immanuel Kant as well as a list of other philosopher and the history of this time.
http://www.epistemelinks.com/Main/Philosophers.aspx?PhilCode=Kant

  
 schacht home page
) Classical Modern Philosophers: Descartes to Kant (London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1984).
) Hegel and After: Studies in Continental Philosophy Between Kant and Sartre (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1975) Pitt Paperback edition: 1975
9) Entry on "Philosophy, History of (since Kant)," Encyclopedia Americana, 1984 edition
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