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'''Immanuel Kant''' (1724-1804) is one of the most influential philosophers in the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western_philosophy history of Western philosophy]. His contributions to [[metaphysics]], [[epistemology]], [[ethics]], and [[aesthetics]] have had a profound impact on almost every philosophical movement that followed him. This article focuses on his metaphysics and epistemology in one of his most important works, ''[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Critique_of_Pure_Reason The Critique of Pure Reason]''. A large part of Kant’s work addresses the question “What can we know?” The answer, if it can be stated simply, is that our [[knowledge]] is constrained to [[mathematics]] and the science of the natural, empirical world. It is impossible, Kant argues, to extend knowledge to the supersensible realm of speculative metaphysics. The reason that knowledge has these constraints, Kant argues, is that the [[mind]] plays an active role in constituting the features of [[experience]] and limiting the mind’s access only to the empirical realm of [[space and time]].
'''Immanuel Kant''' (1724-1804) is one of the most influential philosophers in the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western_philosophy history of Western philosophy]. His contributions to [[metaphysics]], [[epistemology]], [[ethics]], and [[aesthetics]] have had a profound impact on almost every philosophical movement that followed him. This article focuses on his metaphysics and epistemology in one of his most important works, ''[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Critique_of_Pure_Reason The Critique of Pure Reason]''. A large part of Kant’s work addresses the question “What can we know?” The answer, if it can be stated simply, is that our [[knowledge]] is constrained to [[mathematics]] and the science of the natural, empirical world. It is impossible, Kant argues, to extend knowledge to the supersensible realm of speculative metaphysics. The reason that knowledge has these constraints, Kant argues, is that the [[mind]] plays an active role in constituting the features of [[experience]] and limiting the mind’s access only to the empirical realm of [[space and time]].
