Immanuel Kant

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The paper provides a biography of Immanuel Kant and discusses how he was influenced by Jean-Jacques Rousseau. The paper explains Kant's ideas and the application of his philosophy. The paper relates that contemporary philosophers consider Kant to be the most significant contributor to the development of Western philosophy.

Outline:
Introduction
Biography
Contemporaries
Ideas
Application
Conclusion

From the Paper:

"A simplistic overview of Kant's response to these questions is that our knowledge is confined to the scientific understanding of the natural, empirical world; however, Kant believed that in addition to math and science, humankind could expand their knowledge through the exploration of metaphysics. Kant disputed contemporary philosophers of his time in that he deemed knowledge to be inhibited by the mind's involvement in creating the characteristics of our experiences; hence, the limitation of our ability to enter different realms of space and time (McCormick, 2006)."

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