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Immanuel Kant

Introduction

Immanuel Kant was one of the first philosophers of modern times who have been trying to find a general formula for the derivation of moral laws. This should only be found through the use of logic and reason, without taking into account subjective values ??such as experience, ideology, or desires.

There are many theories throughout history have tried to unravel the mystery that is the source of knowledge, the ability of man to attain and the existence of absolute truth. In these theories have speculated about the sources of knowledge and reliability on the role of reason versus the senses, the innateness versus experience, and related points. The intention with this work is to clarify the concepts of knowledge and truth, around which revolve these theories, and analyze them, looking for their limitations, weaknesses and strengths that allow us to advance our search.

Discussion

Development

Not all theories of knowledge are equally valid. The purpose of the different theories is to establish guidelines under which human beings attain knowledge. To address this issue before we clarify two key concepts: knowledge and truth.

Knowledge: the relationship between subject and object, through which the subject grasps the reality of the object.

Truth: it is the correlation between what we believe and what actually occurs in reality that we are part. In principle, the truth is universal, i.e. it is equal for all.

For Kant, knowledge is the combination of which brings reality can be perceived by our senses, and the categories of our understanding. Thus, we capture things conditioned by our senses and intelligence, knowing what is real for us, thus, our knowledge is still true, but only goes as far as our limits allow. From what is not captured by our senses do not really know anything, although the reasons try to speculate. our knowledge begins with experience does not mean that all of it comes from it. The understanding thinks through concepts that form judgments. there are two kinds of concepts: the empirical, which are summaries of our sense data and the pure concepts, which Kant called categories of knowledge, not from experience and through which we think about intuited concepts, which are possible thanks to the categories. .

Relativism contends that there are no absolute truths, only relative, meaning that there is no universal form of reason. Doubt reach the truth through reason, because the subjective conditioning of each ...