![]() ![]() Through faith in God, he said, we have access to a moral law that tells us how to act.Ĭaspar David Friedrich’s Wanderer Above the Sea of Fog captures Kant’s idea of the sublime. In Critique of Practical Reason (1788), Kant asked how we know what we should do. Categorical imperativeĭespite censorship, questioning of God remained central to Kant’s work. In 1793, the Prussian King Friedrich Wilhelm II threatened Kant with punishment if he published further on religion. ![]() In a still largely Christian Europe, Kant was censored for these views. It implied that, since we cannot experience God through the senses, we cannot know that God exists – we can only have faith in his existence. “Knowledge” is not simply a representation of external reality: it is a construction. He said our minds create a picture of the world based on what we perceive through our senses. ![]() In Critique of Pure Reason (1781), Kant argued the way the world seems is not an accurate reflection of how it really is. But the rise of modern science challenged this view. During Kant’s lifetime, people believed God had created us to understand the world perfectly. ![]()
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