Kant and EmpiricismĮmpiricists like John Locke argued that knowledge was gained through our senses. The appearance of these spectacles, according to Kant, existed outside nature. He based his approach on the acknowledgement of a priori mental function (Guyer, 2010). In his view, Kant appreciated that one’s experience of some phenomenon in life was based on how such things appeared to the individual, but not on the way the things precisely were. To advance that reasoning, Kant referred to it as “transcendental idealism”. He ascertained that space and time were only immanent forms of human hunch. Kant claimed that human beings focused too much on appearance but not on their feelings and their inner world (Guyer, 2010).
Transcendental idealism is one of the major beliefs that Kant postulated in his philosophical approaches. It is also believed that his “philosophical awakening and reasoning” emerged after studying the works of a Scottish philosopher Hume. (Guyer,2010) He found and addressed all the gaps in the contents and arguments of the empiricists and rationalists.
His work was influenced by significant historical movements in philosophy – Empiricism and Rationalism – that took place in the 18 th century. Born in Konisberg, Kant showed great interest in academics and learning. His ideas on the transcendental idealism, opposition to skepticism and ideas about metaphysics gained him a niche in the world of philosophy. The contribution of Immanuel Kant to the modern philosophy made him be considered as one of the greatest and the most remarkable philosophers existed in the 18 th century.
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