Terms and Concepts to Remember
about Immanuel Kant (1724-1804)


  • Kant's Epistemology: both Sensing and Reason
  • Conditions on Perception
    • Time and Space
    • Causality
  • Kant's division between things in themselves (das Ding an sich) and things as they appear
  • Hume's view of natural laws
  • Kant's view of natural laws as laws of cognition
    • Material of knowledge
    • Form of knowledge
  • Kant's skepticism about the "big questions"
    • The need to ask the big questions
    • Finite limits on human perception
    • Opposing equally valid viewpoints
    • Faith
  • "Practical Postulates" (key faith assumptions)
    • The immortal soul
    • God's existence
  • Hume's Ethics (How is it different from Kant's?)
  • Kant's Ethics (How is it different from Hume's?)
    • Practical Reason
    • Moral Law (What distinguishes Kant's view of Moral Law from other views?)
    • The Categorical Imperative
    • Duty Ethics
    • Good Will
  • Kant's View of Free Will (What makes a particular action free according to Kant?)