Kantianism

Week-15

Kantianism, also known as Kantian ethics, is a set of universal moral principles that apply to everyone, regardless of circumstance or setting. Immanuel Kant, a German philosopher, called the principles the "Categorical Imperative", and they are defined by their ethics and sense of independence.

Kant's system was a syncretism, or fusion, of British empiricism which highlights the importance of experience in the development of knowledge; Isaac Newton's scientific techniques; and Christian Wolff's metaphysical apriorism (or rationalism), which formalized Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz's philosophy with its focus on mind.

Hereby, a mixture of materials with very disparate origins and natures attracted students to read their own biases into it.