Kant

Joan Sole studies two main parts of Immanuel Kant’s thought. One asks how we gain knowledge. It deals with Kant’s Copernican shift in that field. The other deals with ethics, or how we should act. Kant calls on people to act through reason and freedom.

This study of philosophy sees Kant (1724–1804) as marking a turn in modern thought. It shows his break with ideas from the Middle Ages. Those ideas still held sway in the eighteenth century. In their place, people must shape their own fate through reason.

The book also looks at Kant’s lasting role in later humanist thought. Even those who reject his views work within bounds he helped set. The book forms part of the Descopera filosofia series.