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In what year was Immanuel Kant born?

1724. His dates: 1724-1804

Kant's three major critiques are titled 'Critique of ...':

Pure Reason, Practical Reason, Judgment. Critique of Pure Reason (1781, 2nd edition 1787); Practical Reason (1788); Judgment (1790).

Kant espouses a kind of idealism in his critical philosophy. What kind of idealism does he call it?

transcendental.

Kant is famous for what distinction in analytic philosophy?

analytic - synthetic distinction.

In Kant's moral philosophy, what does he consider to be the only thing that is good without exception?

a good will.

Kant states in the "Critique of Pure Reason" that only three arguments for God's existence, though invalid, can be postulated. Which one below is NOT one he includes?

Hypothetical.

What kind of 'revolution' does Kant think he is making in metaphysics?

Copernican.

For Kant, what kind of objects are unknowable?

noumenal objects.

Time and space are mental constructions for Kant?

t.

Complete this famous excerpt from Kant's Critique of Pure Reason: 'Everything intuited in space and time, and therefore all objects of any experience possible to us, are nothing but _______.'

appearances.