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By: Amanda, Neetu, Abdul

Kant’s Theory of Perception Our understanding of the external world comes from experience and

priori knowledge, not just experience. He believed this to be a -empiricist critique of rationalist philosophy Copernican revolution/ Theory of Judgment Humans can only understand what is when humans are the central of the

knowledge. It is not possible for humans to predict or know what happens beyond where humans are involved.

Kant’s Ethical Theory Evil acts cannot result in happiness, eventually. Good human qualities could not be used for evil acts, as well Did not believe humans followed predetermined laws and that fate did

not play a role in one’s “duty” as a person. Kant’s Theory of Conditions of Possibility Everything we know (things, forms, knowledge) comes from previous

knowledge thus to know them one must understand; The human mind is constantly constructing objective human

experiences for us to understand

Kant believed in many issues of knowledge such as:

the possibility that human knowledge assumes the active consciousness of the human mind

there are two sources of human knowledge: sensibility and understanding.

the way we perceive, identify and reflect upon our life affects and creates our experiences.

without using our senses, we can know nothing. our understanding of the outside world

originates from our experiences as well as prior knowledge

Responded to: Studied under Leibniz, Wolff, and most importantly Martin Knutzen Knutzen was a rationalist Kant has believed in the theory of established harmony (“the

pillow for the lazy mind”) and the concept of idealism but Knutzen had convinced Kant that this theory was invalid.

Kant’s theory of Morals was different from the idea of utilitarianism. Utilitarianism was that morals would be greater than human

rights and dignity and its important to do what is morally correct as a human being.

This theory is about what should be done, not what the consequences of the actions will be getting there. If something had to be done, even if the consequences were unmoral, they should be done.

The main focus of Kant was to link the gaps between rationalism and empiricism because he believed both reason and senses can be sources of knowledge.

Kant proposes that the blank model of the mind is insufficient to explain the beliefs about objects that we have; some components of our beliefs must be brought by the mind to experience.

Kant had also come to doubt the claims of the Rationalists because of what he called Antinomies, or contradictory, but validly proven pairs of claims that reason is compelled toward.

His theory of the unity of consciousness changed the dispute between the rationalists and empiricists in Europe.

Kant believed empiricism is facilitated by senses that cannot themselves be achieved from experience.

The Antinomies can be resolved, Kant argues, if we understand the proper function and domain of the various faculties that contribute to produce knowledge. We must recognize that we cannot know things as they are in themselves and that our knowledge is subject to the conditions of our experience.

A priori: to distinguish between two types of knowledge.

Analytic Proposition: predicate concept is present within the subject concept

Synthetic Proposition: Predicate is not present within the subject

Empirical Realism: the theory that experience provides proof that things exist in space.